Sebastian Buff

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

Life

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

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

Sources

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, 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.


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