All Pearce, Charles Sprague's oil paintings



ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
19813 Paul Wayland Bartlett Paul Wayland Bartlett 1890 Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
19812 Sainte Genevieve Sainte Genevieve 1887 Oil on canvas.
19814 The Woodcutter's Daughter The Woodcutter's Daughter 1890s Oil on canvas.

Pearce, Charles Sprague
American, 1851-1914 American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 Pearce became a pupil of L??on 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 The Decapitation of St John the Baptist (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; Prayer (1884), . Related Artists to : | Frans van Leemputten | Bard, James | Ludwig Deutsch | Arthur Melville | Cordelia Creigh Wilson |