William Houghton Sprague Pearce (WHS Pearce) was an American Artist born to Mary Anna Sprague Peace and Shadrach Houghton Pearce who ran a successful Chinese importing business. His grandfather was Charles Sprague, an early American poet known as "The Banker Poet of Boston".
He was employed by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and his paintings hung in their offices and were sometimes used for their yearly calendars. His works were exhibited and he sold a good amount. He had a talent with music and limericks and wrote under the pseudonym of Carol Vox.
He spent many summers at a large family country residence in Walpole, Massachusetts painting the scenic vistas. He painted in Rockport, MA wih his friends and well known painters, Lester Stephens and Marshall Johnson.
His brother was the noted American expatriate painter, Charles Sprague Pearce. Although Charles moved to Paris to study in the atelier of Lenon Bonnet to pursue a career as a painter the two brothers remained close through a series of four decades of letters and several personal visits. Charles sent him advise and they exchanged thoughts and ideas on painting techniques, lighting and styles.
He is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
He was employed by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and his paintings hung in their offices and were sometimes used for their yearly calendars. His works were exhibited and he sold a good amount. He had a talent with music and limericks and wrote under the pseudonym of Carol Vox.
He spent many summers at a large family country residence in Walpole, Massachusetts painting the scenic vistas. He painted in Rockport, MA wih his friends and well known painters, Lester Stephens and Marshall Johnson.
His brother was the noted American expatriate painter, Charles Sprague Pearce. Although Charles moved to Paris to study in the atelier of Lenon Bonnet to pursue a career as a painter the two brothers remained close through a series of four decades of letters and several personal visits. Charles sent him advise and they exchanged thoughts and ideas on painting techniques, lighting and styles.
He is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
William Houghton Sprague Pearce (WHS Pearce) was an American Artist born to Mary Anna Sprague Peace and Shadrach Houghton Pearce who ran a successful Chinese importing business. His grandfather was Charles Sprague, an early American poet known as "The Banker Poet of Boston".
He was employed by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and his paintings hung in their offices and were sometimes used for their yearly calendars. His works were exhibited and he sold a good amount. He had a talent with music and limericks and wrote under the pseudonym of Carol Vox.
He spent many summers at a large family country residence in Walpole, Massachusetts painting the scenic vistas. He painted in Rockport, MA wih his friends and well known painters, Lester Stephens and Marshall Johnson.
His brother was the noted American expatriate painter, Charles Sprague Pearce. Although Charles moved to Paris to study in the atelier of Lenon Bonnet to pursue a career as a painter the two brothers remained close through a series of four decades of letters and several personal visits. Charles sent him advise and they exchanged thoughts and ideas on painting techniques, lighting and styles.
He is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
He was employed by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and his paintings hung in their offices and were sometimes used for their yearly calendars. His works were exhibited and he sold a good amount. He had a talent with music and limericks and wrote under the pseudonym of Carol Vox.
He spent many summers at a large family country residence in Walpole, Massachusetts painting the scenic vistas. He painted in Rockport, MA wih his friends and well known painters, Lester Stephens and Marshall Johnson.
His brother was the noted American expatriate painter, Charles Sprague Pearce. Although Charles moved to Paris to study in the atelier of Lenon Bonnet to pursue a career as a painter the two brothers remained close through a series of four decades of letters and several personal visits. Charles sent him advise and they exchanged thoughts and ideas on painting techniques, lighting and styles.
He is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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