CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE (1851– )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V21,
Page 24
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE (1851– )
, American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on the 13th of October 1851, In 1873 he became a See also: - PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
of Leon 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 Congressional Library at Washington
.
He received medals at the Paris Salon and elsewhere, and was decorated with the Legion of Honour, the See also: - ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
of Leopold, Belgium, the order of the Red Eagle, Prussia, and the order of Dannebrog, Denmark
.
Among his best known paintings are " The Decapitation of St John the Baptist " (1881), in the Art Institute of Chicago; " Prayer " (1884), owned by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; " The Return of the Flock," in the Bohemian Club, San Francisco; and " Meditation," in the New York Metropolitan Museum
.
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