Henry Cheever Pratt

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

Gallery

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

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

External links

[1] Boston Directory. 1841, 1848

[2] Boston Almanac. 1865

[3] "Orford Street Historic District". www.crjc.org. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.

[4] "| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". tshaonline.org. Archived from the original on February 16, 2019. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.

[5] Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Catalog of American Portraits. Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010

[auto-6] "Redwood Library Painting Collection". Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-02-10.

[7] KOHOUT, MARTIN DONELL (Jun 15, 2010). "MAGOFFIN, JAMES WILEY". tshaonline.org. Retrieved Feb 15, 2019.

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