Henry Cheever Pratt

Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer.

[1][2] 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.

Other paintings are in the collections of Brown University and the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Through his career, portrait subjects included:[5]