The landscape painter Bierstadt joined a surveying expedition to the western United States in 1858 after studying painting in Germany.   Related Paintings of Bierstadt, Albert :. | The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak | The Old Mill | Four Indians | Grizzly Bears | The Arch of Octavius |
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Pearce, Charles Sprague
American, 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),
Elmer Wachtel
American Painter, 1864-1929
HOBBEMA, Meyndert
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1638-1709