American painter🎨 Charles Sprague Pearce (October 13, 1851 - May 18, 1914) achieved international success with his images of French rural life.
Born to a prominent Boston family, he studied art in Paris, traveled to the Near East, and made his home in Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of the French capital.
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.