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Henry Cheever Pratt

Henry Cheever Pratt

American painter and explorer

Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2]

Biography

View from Maricopa Mountain near the Rio Gila, 1855

Born in Orford, New Hampshire,[3] and trained by Samuel F.B. Morse, Pratt painted landscapes of Maine on painting trips with Thomas Cole 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.[4]

H.C. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:[5]

Isaac Ilsley, 1826
  • Josefa Anchondo
  • John Russell Bartlett (1852)
  • Henry Gardner Bridges
  • Adeline Burr Ellery[6]
  • Nicholas Emery
  • Isaac Ilsley
  • Adoniram Judson
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • James Wiley Magoffin[7] (1852)
  • Benjamin Pierce
  • Martha C. Dickinson Pooke
  • Elizabeth Trull (1831), possibly one of the granddaughters of Capt. John Trull
  • William Johnson Walker[6]
  • Russell Warren
  • John B. Wheeler
  • Yale College, 1828. Drawn by Pratt, engraved by S.S. Jocelyn
  • House of Gardiner Greene, Pemberton Hill, Boston, 1843
  • Josefa Anchondo, 1852
  • Ohio River Near Marietta, 1855
  • Adeline Burr Ellery

References

  1. [1]
    Boston Directory. 1841, 1848
  2. [2]
    Boston Almanac. 1865
  3. [3]
    "Orford Street Historic District". www.crjc.org. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.
  4. [4]
    "| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". tshaonline.org. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.
  5. [5]
    Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Catalog of American Portraits. Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010
  6. [6]
    "Redwood Library Painting Collection". Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
  7. [7]
    KOHOUT, MARTIN DONELL (Jun 15, 2010). "MAGOFFIN, JAMES WILEY". tshaonline.org. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.
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