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Sebastian Pether

Sebastian Pether (1790 - 1844) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  Sebastian Pether is known for Paintings of nocturnes, atmospherics, volcanic explosions, landscape.

Sebastian Pether (1793 – 1844) was an English landscape-painter. The eldest son of Abraham Pether, he was a pupil of his father, and followed him in subject matter, but led a beleaguered life. Pether married young and had a large family of nine children, and had few opportunities to create commissioned works and his works were not often exhibited, forcing him to work for dealers to maintain a living.

He was well-educated, and even claimed to have first proposed the idea of a stomach-pump to the surgeon Andrew Jukes. During the last years of his life he lost three children to consumption and another to lockjaw; his eldest son William became a mosaic artist. Pether died at Battersea of an inflammatory attack on 14 March 1844 at York Cottage, Battersea Fields, and a subscription was raised for his family.

Charity was raised for his surviving daughter in a November 1876 issue of the London Times, who was said to be dest   ...  [Displaying 951 of 2222 characters.]  Artist bio

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