Pratt, Matthew
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American Colonial Era Painter, 1734-1805
.American painter. One of ten children of a goldsmith, he was apprenticed at 15 to his uncle, James Claypoole. He spent almost seven years as an apprentice and eight as a painter of portraits and signs for taverns, shops and counting houses. In 1764 he went to England, |
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The American School new5/Pratt, Matthew-984888.jpg Painting ID:: 19937
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1765
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
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