Henry Cheever Pratt
{{Short description|American painter and explorer (1803–1880)}}
Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts.Boston Directory. 1841, 1848Boston Almanac. 1865
Biography
Image:Henry Cheever Pratt - View from Maricopa Mountain near the Rio Gila - 1855.jpg
Born in Orford, New Hampshire,{{Cite web|url=http://www.crjc.org/heritage/N13-6.htm|title=Orford Street Historic District|website=www.crjc.org|accessdate=Feb 15, 2019}} 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 at Austin. Other paintings are in the collections of Brown University and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articlesPP/fpr3.html|title=| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)|website=tshaonline.org|accessdate=Feb 15, 2019|archive-date=February 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216094130/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articlesPP/fpr3.html|url-status=dead}}
Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. [http://npgportraits.si.edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum.asp Catalog of American Portraits]. Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010
Image:1826 IsaacIlsley byHCPratt MaineHistoricalSociety.png
- Josefa Anchondo
- John Russell Bartlett (1852)
- Henry Gardner Bridges
- Adeline Burr Ellery{{Cite web |url=http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm |title=Redwood Library Painting Collection |access-date=2010-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616010707/http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm |archive-date=2011-06-16 |url-status=dead }}
- Nicholas Emery
- Isaac Ilsley
- Adoniram Judson
- Marquis de Lafayette
- James Wiley Magoffin{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma13|title=MAGOFFIN, JAMES WILEY|first=MARTIN DONELL|last=KOHOUT|date=Jun 15, 2010|website=tshaonline.org|accessdate=Feb 15, 2019}} (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
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External links
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- [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?814756 Fort Yuma, Colorado River]. 1850
- [http://www.calart.com/Data/Artists/Henry_Cheever_Pratt.asp Henry Cheever Pratt -- California art]
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:19th-century American male artists
Category:19th century in Boston
Category:American male painters
Category:American portrait painters