The Life and Identity of Robert M. Pratt The story of Robert M. Pratt begins in the United States, where he entered the world in 1811. Known to history by his full name, Robert Morell Pratt, he lived through a transformative era in American history. His life was shaped by the quiet ambitions of a painter seeking to capture the likenesses of his contemporaries and the figures of the past. He moved through the decades of the nineteenth…