Henry Cheever Pratt
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Henry Cheever Pratt was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston
, Massachusetts
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and of the American Southwest while on boundary surveying expeditions. John Russell Bartlett
's A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua (2 vols., 1854) contains 30 of Pratt's illustrations.
Pratt's paintings include View of Smith's West Texas Ranch (1852) now owned by the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas. Other paintings are in the collections of Brown University and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
H.C. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:
Boston
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Biography
Born in New England and trained by Samuel F.B. Morse, Pratt painted landscapes of Maine on painting trips with Thomas ColeThomas Cole
Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century...
and of the American Southwest while on boundary surveying expeditions. John Russell Bartlett
John Russell Bartlett
John Russell Bartlett was an American historian and linguist.-Biography:Bartlett was born in Providence, Rhode Island...
's A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua (2 vols., 1854) contains 30 of Pratt's illustrations.
Pratt's paintings include View of Smith's West Texas Ranch (1852) now owned by the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas. Other paintings are in the collections of Brown University and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
H.C. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:
- Josefa Anchondo
- John Russell BartlettJohn Russell BartlettJohn Russell Bartlett was an American historian and linguist.-Biography:Bartlett was born in Providence, Rhode Island...
(1852) - Henry Gardner Bridges
- Adeline Burr Ellery
- Nicholas Emery
- Isaac Ilsley
- Adoniram Judson
- Marquis de Lafayette
- James Wiley Magoffin (1852)
- Benjamin Pierce
- Martha C. Dickinson Pooke
- William Johnson Walker
- Russell Warren
- John B. Wheeler
External links
- Fort Yuma, Colorado River. 1850
- http://www.calart.com/Data/Artists/Henry_Cheever_Pratt.asp