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 Cheever Pratt Henry Cheever Pratt Henry Cheever Pratt (1803–1880) was an American artist and explorer. He lived in Boston, Massachusetts. Born in Orford, New Hampshire, and trained by Samuel F.B. Morse, Pratt painted landscapes of Maine on painting trips with Thomas Cole and of the American Southwest while on boundary surveying expeditions. John Russell Bartlett's "A Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua" (2 vols., 1854) contains 30 of Pratt's illustrations. Pratt's paintings include "View of Smith's West Texas Ranch" (1852) now owned by the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas. Other paintings