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Charles Franklin Pierce

Charles Franklin Pierce (1844 - 1920) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire.  Charles Pierce is known for Pastoral landscape, town views.

The following biography is contributed by Scott Plimpton, great, great nephew of the artist:

Charles Franklin Pierce was born on April 26th, 1844 in Sharon, New Hampshire to John A. and Phila W. Pierce. He was the third of six children who were raised in the nearby rural community of Peterborough. His early years were spent working on the family farm where the pastoral environment and a multitude of livestock made a deep impression on the future artist. Many of the works of art he would create later on in his life would stem from his familiarity with the farming way of life in the mid 1800s. Cows were one of his favorite subjects.

In the early 1860s his creative energies started to emerge and the drudgery of farm work was certainly no outlet for them, so in 1864 he decided to move to Boston to attend art school. Over the next few years he developed his skills at school and in the latter 1860s took his sketchbooks and went to England, Scotland and Wales to sketch the count   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2278 characters.]  Artist bio

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