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| Pearce, Charles Sprague (1851-1914) was an American painter. During the period 1873-75 he studied at the atelier run by Leon Bonnat in Paris, and lived mostly in France ever since. 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. | |
Charles Sprague Pearce was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873, Pearce spent the winter in Egypt, and traveled in Algiers in 1874-75. Some of his most successful works include genre paintings of Northern Africa, and historical scenes from the Bible, some set in Ancient Egypt. Since 1876 he exhibited frequently at the Paris salon, and also in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. He received medals and other honors at various times, notably a medal of the third class at the salon, in 1883, the Temple gold medal of the Philadelphia academy in 1885, and the Belgian grand medal of honor in 1886. He also was made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, and decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark. Among his best known paintings are "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. Pearce died in 1914. |
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|  | | "The Arab Jeweller" (1882) Oil on canvas, 117 x 90 cm - 46 x 35.4 in. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. | | | |
|  | | "Lamentations over the Death of the Fist-Born of Egypt" (1877) Oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm - 38.5 x 51.2 in. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA. | | | |
|  | | "SainteGeneviève" (circa 1887) Oil on canvas, 167.64 x 208.28 cm - 66 x 82 in. Collection of Peter Rudolph, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. | | | |
|  | | "Moments of Thoughtfulness" (1882) Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 54.6 cm - 29.02 x 21.5 cm. Private collection. | | | |
|  | | "Woman of the Directoire" (circa 1884) Oil on canvas, 32.25 x 39.5 cm - 12.7 x 15.55 in. Private collection. | | | |
|  | | "Knitting in the Fields" Oil on canvas. Public collection. | | | |
|  | | "Reading by the Shore" (circa 1883-85) Oil on canvas, 29.8 x 45.7 cm - 11.7 x 18 in. Private collection. | | | |
|  | | "Paul Wayland Bartlett" (1890) Oil on canvas. | | | |
|  | | "Labor mural in lunette from the Family and Education series" (1896) North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., USA. | | | |
|  | | "Study mural in lunette from the Family and Education series" (1896) North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., USA. |
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