Artist Info
Charles Maresco Pearce
Charles Maresco Pearce (1874-1964), British artist.
Born in London, Pearce was educated as an architect. After leaving Christ Church Oxford he studied at Chelsea Art School under Augustus John and William Orpen, and afterwards in Paris where he was tutored by Jacques-Emile Blanche. He also studied with Sickert, who greatly influenced him. He married the daughter of architect Halsey Ricardo, who designed a house for them in Upper Church Street, Chelsea, as a wedding gift.
He was made a member of the New English Art Club in 1912, and became a member of the London Group in 1929. A painter of architectural subjects and an etcher, he was also a great collector and owned works by Vuillard, Bonnard, Gauguin and Maillol, Grant, Baynes and Sickert, as well as Japanese prints and William de Morgan ceramics. His first one-man show was at the Carfax Gallery in 1910. The Tate Archive holds his manuscript memoirs. Written retrospectively in the 1950s, they recall the London art scene from 1905 until the start of the First World War.
