"William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)," oil on canvas, painted by American artist Henry Cheever Pratt. 51 1/8 in. x 41 3/8 in. Image courtesy of the Brown University Portrait Collection, Brown University, Providence, R.I.
Date 1857
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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, china oil painting Pratt, Matthew William Ellery Channing
