Biography
Charles Maresco Pearce (b. South Kensington, London 1874 - d. Graffham, Sussex, UK 1964) studied at Oxford University and was apprenticed to an architect. He later studied at Chelsea School of Art under Augustus John and William Orpen (1904). Two years later, he was in Paris with Jacques-Emile Blanche and with Walter Sickert, who were an influence on his style. Pearce was one of a group of artists, friends of Sickert, who congregated in the Dieppe area before WW1, among them Max Beerbohm, Marie Tempest and Percy Grainger. Pearce’s training as an architect and his love of France are reflected in pictures by him illustrated in Artists’ Country, by G S Sandilands. On 21 May 1914 he married Anna Catherine Ricardo (1889-1959), daughter of the Arts and Crafts architect, Halsey Ralph Ricardo, at the Parish Church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Pearce was a prolific exhibitor, including at the Royal Academy, The London Group, of which he was a member, as he was of the New Englsih Art Club (NEAC), Leicester Galleries and Goupil Gallery.
