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Pratt, Matthew
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The_Duke_of_Portland
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Approx._1774
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National_Gallery_of_Art,_Washington_D.C.
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The Duke of Portland
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Oil on canvas
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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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