Name Charles Pearce Grandparents Charles Sprague | Parents Mary Anna Sprague Role Artist | |
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Died May 18, 1914, Auvers-sur-Oise, France Artwork Meditation, Prayer, The Return of the Flock People also search for Charles Sprague, William Houghton Sprague Pearce, Leon Bonnat | ||
Great-grandparents Samuel Sprague | ||
Charles sprague pearce a collection of 41 paintings hd
Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 – May 18, 1914) was an American artist.
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- Charles sprague pearce a collection of 41 paintings hd
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Charles sprague pearce 1851 1914 american painter ernesto cortazar music
Biography
Pearce was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon Bonnat in Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-Oise. He painted Egyptian and Algerian scenes, French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative work, notably for the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress at Washington. He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, decorated with the Order of Leopold, Belgium, the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark.
Works
Among his best-known paintings are The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), The Return of the Flock, and Meditation. Pearce was also among those who knew and painted the Capri muse Rosina Ferrara.
