TISCHBEIN, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm
German Painter, 1751-1829 Related Paintings of TISCHBEIN, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm :. | Goethe in the Roman Campagna | Portrait of William VIII | Portrat der Familie Saltykowa | Portrait of Christian Gottlob Heyne | Portrait Goethes in der Campagna | Related Artists: Jean Urbain GuerinFrench, 1760-1836 Pearce, Charles SpragueAmerican, 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), Giovanni di Pietro called lo Spagnaca 1450-Spoleto 1528
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