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THOMAS SEDDON (1821-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SEDDON (1821-1856)  , See also:English landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:London on the 28th of See also:August 1821 . His See also:father was a cabinetmaker, and the son for some See also:time followed the same occupation; but in 1842 he was sent to See also:Paris to study ornamental See also:art . On his return he executed designs for See also:furniture for his father . In 1849 he made sketching expeditions in See also:Wales and See also:France, and in 1852 began to exhibit in the Royal See also:Academy, sending a figure-piece, See also:Penelope, and afterwards landscapes, deriving their subjects from See also:Brittany . In the end of 1853 he joined See also:Holman See also:Hunt at See also:Cairo . He worked for a See also:year in See also:Egypt and See also:Palestine, =Iv . 19SEDGWICK, A . 377 executing views which See also:Ruskin pronounced to be " the first landscapes uniting perfect artistical skill with topographical accuracy; being directed, with stern self-See also:restraint, to no other purpose than that of giving to persons who cannot travel See also:trust-worthy knowledge of the scenes which ought to be most interesting to them." See also:Seddon's Eastern subjects were exhibited in See also:Berners See also:Street, London, in 1855, and in Conduit Street in 1856 . In See also:October 1856 Seddon again visited Cairo, where he died on the 23rd of See also:November . In 1857 his See also:works were exhibited in the rooms of the Society of Arts, and his important and elaborately finished picture, " See also:Jerusalem and the Valley of See also:Jehoshaphat," was See also:purchased by subscription and presented to the See also:National See also:Gallery . A memoir of Seddon, by his See also:brother, was published in 1859 .

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