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See also:PEARCE, See also:CHARLES SPRAGUE (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 (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
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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