Hugo Pratt origin, his maternal grandfather was of Marrano (Jewish) descent, and his grandmother was of Turkish origin. He was also related to actor Boris Karloff (né William Henry Pratt). In 1937, Pratt moved with his mother to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), joining his father who was working there following the conquest of that country by Benito Mussolini's Italy. Pratt's father, a professional Italian soldier, was captured in 1941 by British troops and in late 1942, died from disease as a prisoner of war. The same year, Hugo Pratt and his mother were interned in a prison camp at Dirédaoua, where he would buy
Henry Lark Pratt in 1867 and six years later he had another painting accepted by the Society of British Artists. He died in 1875 at the age of 36. Henry Lark Pratt has several paintings in his home town’s art gallery as well as paintings at the gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Henry Lark Pratt Henry Lark Pratt (1805–1873) was an English painter who trained in the porcelain industry. Pratt was born in the parish of St Peters in Derby on 16 February 1805 and he was apprenticed into the porcelain trade at the Derby Factory at the age of about 12. Pratt would have