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Pratt, Henry Cheever (1803-1880)

Name:
Pratt, Henry Cheever (1803-1880)
Title:
Artist, United States-Mexico Boundary Survey Expedition, 1851-1853.
Born:
06/13/1803
Birthplace:
Orford, NH
Died:
11/27/1880
Death Location:
Wakefield, MA
Residence:
Orford, NH
Charlestown, MA 1850, 1855
Charleston, SC
Washington, DC
Boston, MA 1825, 1831
Wakefield, MA 1869, 1870
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Artist
Portrait Painter
Father:
Pratt, Joseph (1772-1834)
Mother:
Mann, Lydia (1776-1851)
Spouse:
Sarah H. Johnson (1807-1881), January 13, 1831
Children:
Henry D. J., born 1832; died 1875
Joseph, born 1834; died 1908
Frank G., born 1835; died 1871
Sarah, born 1841; died 1843
Notes:
Catherine H. Campbell, "Two's Company: The Diaries of Thomas Cole and Henry Cheever Pratt on Their Walk through Crawford Notch, 1828," Historical New Hampshire, 33(Winter 1978)4, 308-333.

Alice Doan Hodgson, "Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880)," Antiques, November 1972, 842-847.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. M & M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815-1865. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949), 449-451.

The White Mountains: Place and Perceptions. (Hanover, New Hampshire: Published for the University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham, by the University of New England Press, 1980), 107-108.

Obituary, Boston Journal, Boston, MA, December 1, 1880, 1.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
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