Artist of the day, August 19: Charles Sprague Pearce, an American painter (#775)

Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 – 1914) was an American artist. He was born at Boston, Massachusetts. In 1873 he became a pupil of Léon 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.

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Mr Charles Sprague Pearce

1876, Contadina

1880, Mother and child

1880, Woman in white dress and straw hat

1880-84, Home from the fields

1882, Arab jeweller

1882, Hanging laundry

1882, Moments of Thoughtfulness

1882, Prelude

1883, A cup of tea

1883, Fantaisie

1883-85, Reading by the shore

1884, Across The Fields

1884, Heartbreak

1884, Portrait of a young girl

1885, Evening

1885, Peeling potatoes

1885-90, Gleaner’s Rest

1887, Ste Genevieve

1888, Return of the flock

1889, Solitude

1890, Paul Wayland Bartlett

1891, A village funeral in Brittany

1893, Bergère retour du troupeau

1896, Family

1896, Labor

1896, Recreation

1896, Religion

1896, Rest

1896, Study

1905, La Bourasque

1910,  A Peasant Girl

1914, Auvers-sur-Oise

1914, In the poppy field

A shepherd boy (Unknown date)

On the path (Unknown date)

Pottery Seller in Old Cairo (Unknown date)

Women in the fields (Unknown date)