Career
He lived in Boston, Massachusetts. 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. hockey club Pratt also painted portraits.
Through his career, portrait subjects included:
Josefa Anchondo
John Russell Bartlett(1852)
Henry Gardner Bridges
Adeline Burr Ellery
Nicholas Emery
Isaac Ilsley
Adoniram Judson
Marquis de Lafayette
James Wiley Magoffin (1852)
Benjamin Pierce
Martha C. Dickinson Pooke
William Johnson Walker
Russell Warren
John B. Wheeler.