Dobiaschofsky
Coastal landscape (Cornwall?)
Oil on canvas
Original catalogue wording
Küstenlandschaft (Cornwall?).
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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John Brett
Born : 1831Died : 1902
John Brett (1831–1902), a British artist, asserts an approach to nature based on scientific precision, which he often associates with moral and religious meanings. He begins taking art lessons with James Duffield Harding in 1851, also studies with Richard Redgrave, and then enters the Royal Academy Schools in 1853. In 1858, he exhibits The Stonebreaker, a painting that helps establish his reputation. Partly funded by John Ruskin, he then travels to the Aosta Valley to paint the site; exhibited in 1859, the painting is praised by Ruskin, who buys it.
Passionate about astronomy since childhood, Brett is elected a member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871. He also travels in the Mediterranean aboard his schooner Viking, of 210 tons and with a crew of twelve. In the final years of his career, he paints more coastal subjects and seascapes. A founding member of the Art Workers’ Guild, he is elected its Master in 1890. In 2001, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff presents the exhibition John Brett – a Pre-Raphaelite on the Shores of Wales, bringing together many important works from this period of his career.
This profile brings together identity references for John Brett and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Works recorded at auction
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19