Matthew Pratt

He learned different aspects of portrait painting (including business acumen) from Claypoole.

In 1764 he escorted his cousin, Betsey Shewell to England for her marriage to the American "expatriate" artist Benjamin West.

Pratt stayed on in England for two and a half years as a pupil and colleague to West.

Charles Willson Peale stated that at that time Matthew Pratt had a full-length portrait of John Dickinson and a considerable number of other works in progress.

[1] [2] Their children were: Pratt announced that he was recently returned from England and Ireland and also New York.