Henry Cheever Pratt ART FOR SALE

1803 Oxford, New Hampshire - 1880 Wakefield, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape-survey, portrait, genre.

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Born in Oxford, New Hampshire, Henry Pratt became a portrait and panoramic landscape painter whose primary reputation is for the work he completed as an artist for the 1850 U.S. Mexican Boundary Survey. His talent was discovered by Samuel F.B. Morse who saw the young artist's paintings on a barn door and took him to Boston as his assistant. He also got him enrolled in the classes of Samuel Finley and then took him in 1819 and 1820 to Charleston, South Carolina as a painting assistant. By 1825, Pratt had a studio in Boston where he was a successful portrait painter and exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. He did numerous sketching trips into the nearby mountains with his good friend, Thomas Cole, who, like Morse, encouraged his interest in... Read full biography

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John Pratt (Artist's Son)

Type:Painting

Year:Circa 1848

Size:27.00" x 22.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Verso

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A wonderfully rendered picture of the artist''s son right before embarking together on the artistic survey of the Gadsden Purchase in 1848-53, of the newly acquired territory in the Southwest US by the government. Beautiful unlined condition in original frame.

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