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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,
Hertigen av Portland
ca 1774 Olja på segelduk Nationell Galleri av Konst. Washington D.C.
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