Pratt, Matthew:
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, . Related Artists to Pratt, Matthew : | Benjamin Duterrau | Master of Virgo inter Virgines | Allen Smith | AACHEN, Hans von | Armand-Vincent de Montpetit |
