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Charles Sprague Pearce

 Painting - Auvers-sur-oise by Charles Sprague Pearce

Auvers-sur-oise

Charles Sprague Pearce Painting - Peeling Potatoes by Charles Sprague Pearce

Peeling Potatoes

Charles Sprague Pearce Painting - Lunch Break In The Fields by Charles Sprague Pearce

Lunch Break In The Fields

Charles Sprague Pearce Painting - The Arab Jeweler by Charles Sprague Pearce

The Arab Jeweler

Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 – May 18, 1914) was an American artist.


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.
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Paul Wayland Bartlett (1890)

Family (1896)

Labor (1896)

Recreation (1896)

Religion (1896)

Rest (1896)

Study (1896)

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pearce, Charles Sprague". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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