Charles Sprague Pearce
American painter of Orientalist and decorative works
Charles Sprague Pearce was an American artist. Pearce was born in 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. Among his best-known paintings are Beheading of St. John the Baptist|The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881); 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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Master student
- Léon Bonnat Master
Artworks by this artist (26 total)
- In the Poppy Field, Auvers-sur-Oise
- Study for a Panel V 1890-1897
- Study of a Flower (verso) 1890-1897
- Study for a Panel II 1890-1897
- The Arab Jeweler ca. 1882
- Study for a Panel IV 1890-1897
- Figure Study 1890-1897
- Portrait of a Woman
- Paul Wayland Bartlett c. 1890
- Study of a Figure from Behind 1890-1897
- Study of a Figure from Behind (recto) 1890-1897
- The red kerchief
- Study for a Panel VI 1890-1897
- Study of a Scroll 1890-1897
- Study of Figures 1890-1897
- Mother and Child, Evening Desert
- Home From The Fields circa 1880-84
- A pottery Seller In Old Cairo
- Auvers-sur-oise
- Figure Studies 1890-1897