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See also: English landscape painter, was See also: born in See also: London on the 28th of See also: August 1821
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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
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On his return he executed designs for furniture for his father
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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
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In the end of 1853 he joined See also: Holman See also: Hunt at Cairo
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He worked for a See also: year in See also: Egypt and See also: Palestine,
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executing views which See also: Ruskin pronounced to be " the first landscapes uniting perfect artistical skill with topographical accuracy; being directed, with stern self-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." Seddon's Eastern subjects were exhibited in Berners Street, London, in 1855, and in Conduit Street in 1856
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In See also: October 1856 Seddon again visited Cairo, where he died on the 23rd of See also: November
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In 1857 his See also: works were exhibited in the rooms of the Society of Arts, and his important and elaborately finished picture, " Jerusalem and the Valley of See also: Jehoshaphat," was See also: purchased by subscription and presented to the See also: National Gallery
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A memoir of Seddon, by his See also: brother, was published in 1859
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