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Kracker, Johann Lucas
Austrian painter
b. 1719, Wien, d. 1779, Eger Related Paintings of Kracker, Johann Lucas :. | Saint John of Nepomuk | The Council in Trident | Appearance of the Virgin to St Anthony | The Dispute between St Catherine of Alexandria and the Philosophers | Taufers | 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), Jose Mercedes Ortegapainted Dona Ines de Suarez in defending the city of Santiago in 1897
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