Henry Cheever Pratt Explained
Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] [2]
Biography
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]
- 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
External links
Notes and References
- Boston Directory. 1841, 1848
- Boston Almanac. 1865
- Web site: Orford Street Historic District. www.crjc.org. Feb 15, 2019.
- Web site: | Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). tshaonline.org. Feb 15, 2019. February 16, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190216094130/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articlesPP/fpr3.html. dead.
- Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Catalog of American Portraits. Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010
- Web site: Redwood Library Painting Collection . 2010-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110616010707/http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm . 2011-06-16 . dead .
- Web site: MAGOFFIN, JAMES WILEY. MARTIN DONELL. KOHOUT. Jun 15, 2010. tshaonline.org. Feb 15, 2019.
