Sebastian Pether

Sebastian Pether (24 November 1793 – 14 March 1844)[a] was an English landscape-painter who specialised in painting moonlight, sunset, and firelight.

[7] The bulk of his work was managed through art dealers who helped him sell his paintings, but resulted in little income to support his large family of eleven.

[3][9] During the last years of his life he lost three children to consumption and after his death another to lockjaw; his eldest son William became a mosaic artist.

[3][9][b] Charity was raised for his surviving daughter in a November 1876 issue of the London Times, who was said to be destitute after ruining her eyesight working as a needlewoman.

[9] In 1814 Pether sent to the Royal Academy View from Chelsea Bridge of the Destruction of Drury Lane Theatre, and in 1826 A Caravan overtaken by a Whirlwind, a commission from John Fleming Leicester, who was his only patron.