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1803 Oxford, New Hampshire - 1880 Wakefield, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape-survey, portrait, genre.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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
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 portraying sublime aspects of the landscape. In 1851, Pratt joined John R. Bartlett's Mexican Boundary Survey as the official artis... Read full biography
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Keywords (35)
Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Boston Before 1900
- •California Before 1940
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Southern California Before 1900
- •Texas Before 1940
- •West Virginia Before 1920
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •Boston Artists Asssociation
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Carl S. Dentzel Collection
Added Description
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •Genre Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Boston Athenaeum