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Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts.〔Boston Directory. 1841, 1848〕〔Boston Almanac. 1865〕 ==Biography== 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.〔''Handbook of Texas Online'', s.v., http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articlesPP/fpr3.html (accessed September 29, 2009).〕 H.C. Pratt also painted portraits. Through his career, portrait subjects included:〔Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. (Catalog of American Portraits ). Retrieved 10 Feb. 2010〕 * Josefa Anchondo * John Russell Bartlett(1852) * Henry Gardner Bridges * Adeline Burr Ellery〔http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm〕 * Nicholas Emery * Isaac Ilsley * Adoniram Judson * Marquis de Lafayette * (James Wiley Magoffin ) (1852) * Benjamin Pierce * Martha C. Dickinson Pooke * William Johnson Walker〔http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/artistdx.htm〕 * Russell Warren * John B. Wheeler 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Cheever Pratt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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