Sarah Setchel (1803–1894) was an English water-colour painter.

Life

She was the daughter of John Frederick Setchel, a bookseller in King Street,

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. After leaving school, she took up drawing, self-taught, studying at the

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and the

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, and took lessons in miniature-painting from Louisa Sharpe. Setchel died at Sudbury, near

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, on 8 January 1894, aged 80.

Works

''Fanny'', Setchel's first exhibited work, appeared at the

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in 1831, and she continued to exhibit there and at the Society of British Artists until 1840, when she sent to the Society ''A Scene from Howitt's Rural Life of England''. She was elected in 1841 a member of the New Society of Painters in Water-colours, and in the following year contributed to its exhibition ''A Scene from "Smugglers and Poachers" in Crabbe's Tales of the Hall'', representing a prison interior where a young man whose life is in jeopardy is visited by his betrothed. It became popular, and was engraved in mezzotint by

Samuel Bellin Samuel Bellin (London 13 May 1799 – 29 April 1893 London) was a British printmaker. He was the son of John Bellin of Chigwell, Essex, and born at Doctors' Commons in London. He trained under the Huguenot James Basire the younger (1769–1822 ...

as ''The Momentous Question''. ''The Heart's Resolve'', a subject from

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's tale of ''Jesse and Colin'', exhibited in 1850, was engraved by Bellin as a companion plate. Setchel continued to exhibit until 1867.

References

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