Sebastian Buff, a Swiss portrait painter, was born about 1828. He studied at Munich and Paris, and besides portraits painted genre pictures which are much sought after. He died at Herisau in 1880.
This article incorporates text from the article "BUFF, Sebastian" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.