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Sebastian Buff

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Portrait of an elegant lady, 1869.

Sebastian Buff (c.1829–1880) was a Swiss portrait painter.

Life

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A watch bearer's pause, 1867.

Buff was born in 1829.[1] He studied painting with the portraitist Leonhard Tanner in St Gallen,[1] before continuing his education at Munich and Paris. Besides portraits he painted genre works which were much sought after. He died at Herisau in 1880.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Buff, Sebastian". Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. ^ Bryan 1886

Sources

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Buff, Sebastian". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.