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

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painter.

Life

Buff was born in 1829. He studied painting with the portraitist Leonhard Tanner in

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, before continuing his education at Munich and Paris. Besides portraits he painted

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works which were much sought after. He died at

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in 1880.

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* 19th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters Swiss portrait painters 1820s births 1880 deaths 19th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub