John Brett was born in the small market town of Reigate in Surrey at the foot of the North Downs. His father, Charles Curtis Brett, was a surgeon and captain in the army. An older sister of the painter, Rose Brett was also a painter and the two siblings even shared a studio for some time. From Rosa Brett's diaries it is clear that the young woman initially even exhibited and sold her own paintings under her brother's name. John Brett first had private art lessons with the well-known landscape painter James Duffield Harding and also with the painter Richard Redgrave. At the age of 22 he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts. Here he met, among others, the well-known art critic and patron John Ruskin, who thought very highly of Brett's work and also supported him generously financially. Brett's first and probably most famous painting was called "The Stone Crusher" and depicted a boy who laboriously crushes stones for road construction. It was based on a painting with the same name that Henry Wallis had painted the year before in the Swiss Aosta Valley. Ruskin was so taken with Brett's work that he "donated" him a study stay in Switzerland and Italy. and even bought another painting by Brett, "The Aosta Valley", for himself.
John Brett became well known and very successful over time. He belonged to the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites and his works are on the one hand very detailed and atmospheric, but also often have a socially critical component. He visited Italy and Switzerland many times, where some of his best paintings were created, such as "The Glacier of Rosenlaui". Later on he also became more involved with marine and coastal themes. He owned a 210-ton schooner with a 12-man crew, with which he travelled the Mediterranean, partly with his family, but also along the coasts of England, Wales, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight in search of motifs. He also rented Newport Castle in Pembrokeshire for several summers to take trips to the Welsh coast, photograph, sketch and paint. John Brett was also an enthusiastic amateur astronomer.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324511).jpg "Newquay, Cornwall by John Brett")
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.jpg "Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset by John Brett")
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.jpg "Loch Beag, Skye by John Brett")
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.jpg "South-East Gale at Portencross Castle by John Brett")
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.jpg "Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Bristol Channel from the Welsh Coast, 1895 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Portrait of Matilda Bury, 1855 by John Brett")
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.jpg "A North-West Gale off the Longships Lighthouse by John Brett")
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.jpg "Yachts in a Seaway, Mediterranean by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-312011).jpg "Kennack Sands, Cornwall, at Low Tide, 1877 by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Stronghold of the Seison and the Camp of Kittywake by John Brett")
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.jpg "Golden Prospects, St Catherines Well, Lands End, Cornwall by John Brett")
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.jpg "Tenby, 1879 by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131220).jpg "Near Llyn Crafrant, Wales by John Brett")
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.jpg "Man of War Rocks, Coast of Dorset by John Brett")
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.jpg "Sketch on the South Coast of Guernsey by John Brett")
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.jpg "Kennack Sands, Cornwall, at Low Tide by John Brett")
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.jpg "Glacier of Rosenlaui by John Brett")
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.jpg "On the Welsh Coast by John Brett")
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.jpg "Near Sorrento by John Brett")
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.jpg "Unfinished Portrait of a Woman by John Brett")
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.jpg "A North West Gale off the Longships Lighthouse by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-267642).jpg "Georgina Hannay, 1859 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Isle of Arran, 7th August 1883 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Seascape with cloudy sky by John Brett")
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.jpg "Lee Cove Sands by John Brett")
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.jpg "Forest Cove, Cardigan Bay, 1883 by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1665075).jpg "Sunset off Lundy Island by John Brett")
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.jpg "A Southerly on the Clyde by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131413).jpg "Lock Linnhe, near Oban, Scotland by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1665083).jpg "In the Channel Islands by John Brett")
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.jpg "Lady in Mediaeval Dress by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Garrison Walk, St. Mary")
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.jpg "Summer on the Cliffs by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Shallows of Hareslade Cove, Gower by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-996023).jpg "Georgina Weldon by John Brett")
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.jpg "Bonchurch Downs by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128253).jpg "Kyleakin, 7th May 1886 by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Stonebreaker by John Brett")
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.jpg "February in the Isle of Wight, 1866 by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128236).jpg "Looking Out of Loch Corrie, 27th August 1885 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Caernarvon by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1126599).jpg "A Rocky Coastline by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Norman Archipelago by John Brett")
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.jpg "Portrait of Laura Theresa Epps Lady Alma-Tadema as a Child by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1126970).jpg "Brodick Pier, 20th August 1886 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Bude Sands at Sunset, 1874 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Study for Chagford by John Brett")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1665023).jpg "Chagford (A Moorland Scene) by John Brett")
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.jpg "On the Welsh Coast by John Brett")
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.jpg "Portrait of Arthur Brett by John Brett")
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.jpg "Off the Isle of Man, 1885 by John Brett")
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.jpg "Gravelines by John Brett")
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.jpg "Portrait of Pauline Rivaz by John Brett")
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.jpg "The Outlook from My Native Cliffs by John Brett")
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.jpg "Mist Rising in the Highlands by John Brett")
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.jpg "Kynance by John Brett")
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.jpg "Head and Shoulders Portrait Sketch of Woman with Eyes Downcast by John Brett")
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