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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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Pearce, Charles Sprague
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Paul Wayland Bartlett
Painting ID:: 19813
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Pearce, Charles Sprague
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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), |
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Paul Wayland Bartlett |
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1890
Oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. |
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