Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in

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Biography

Born in Orford,

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, and trained by Samuel F. B. Morse, Pratt painted landscapes of Maine on painting trips with

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and of the American Southwest while on boundary surveying expeditions.

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'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

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. Other paintings are in the collections of

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and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included: * Josefa Anchondo *

(1852) * Henry Gardner Bridges * Adeline Burr Ellery * Nicholas Emery * Isaac Ilsley *

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* Marquis de Lafayette * James Wiley Magoffin (1852) * Benjamin Pierce * Martha C. Dickinson Pooke * Elizabeth Trull (1831), possibly one of the granddaughters of Capt. John Trull * William Johnson Walker * Russell Warren * John B. Wheeler

Gallery

Image:1828 Yale byHCPratt.png, Yale College, 1828. Drawn by Pratt, engraved by S.S. Jocelyn Image:2884589771 PembertonHill Boston 1843.jpg, House of Gardiner Greene, Pemberton Hill, Boston, 1843 Image:1852 JosefaAnchondo byHCPratt StMarysCollege.png, Josefa Anchondo, 1852 Image:1855 OhioRiver Near Marietta byHCPratt.png, Ohio River Near Marietta, 1855 File:Adeline Burr Ellery by Henry Cheever Pratt.jpg, Adeline Burr Ellery

References

External links

Fort Yuma, Colorado River
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Henry Cheever Pratt -- California art
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pratt, Henry Cheever 1803 births 1880 deaths 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists 19th century in Boston American male painters American portrait painters Burials at Christ Church, Philadelphia Painters from Boston People from Orford, New Hampshire