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CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE (1851– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 24 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES SPRAGUE See also:PEARCE (1851– )  , See also:American artist, was See also:born at See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 13th of See also:October 1851, In 1873 he became a See also:pupil of See also:Leon See also:Bonnat in See also:Paris, and after 1885 he lived in Paris and at Auvers-sur-See also:Oise . He painted See also:Egyptian and Algerian scenes, See also:French peasants, and portraits, and also decorative See also:work, notably for the Congressional Library at See also:Washington . He received medals at the Paris See also:Salon and elsewhere, and was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also:Honour, the See also:order of See also:Leopold, See also:Belgium, the order of the Red See also:Eagle, See also:Prussia, and the order of Dannebrog, See also:Denmark . Among his best known paintings are " The Decapitation of St See also:John the Baptist " (1881), in the See also:Art See also:Institute of See also:Chicago; " See also:Prayer " (1884), owned by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; " The Return of the See also:Flock," in the Bohemian See also:Club, See also:San Francisco; and " Meditation," in the New See also:York See also:Metropolitan Museum .

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