Henry Cheever Pratt

Henry Cheever Pratt

James Walker

James Wiley Magoffin

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 New England 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.[3]

H.C. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:[4]
Isaac Ilsley, 1826

Josefa Anchondo
John Russell Bartlett(1852)
Henry Gardner Bridges
Adeline Burr Ellery[5]
Nicholas Emery
Isaac Ilsley
Adoniram Judson
Marquis de Lafayette
James Wiley Magoffin (1852)
Benjamin Pierce
Martha C. Dickinson Pooke
William Johnson Walker[6]
Russell Warren
John B. Wheeler

Image 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

References

Boston Directory. 1841, 1848
Boston Almanac. 1865
Handbook of Texas Online, s.v., http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articlesPP/fpr3.html (accessed September 29, 2009).
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Catalog of American Portraits. Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010
http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm

http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm

External links

Fort Yuma, Colorado River. 1850
http://www.calart.com/Data/Artists/Henry_Cheever_Pratt.asp