Background
The son of Francis and Jane Sibson, and younger brother of Francis Sibson, he was born in the parish of Cross Canonby, Cumberland, in March 1817.
The son of Francis and Jane Sibson, and younger brother of Francis Sibson, he was born in the parish of Cross Canonby, Cumberland, in March 1817.
He started work in the counting-house of an uncle in Manchester. Deciding to become an artist, he came to London in 1838. Sibson was suffering from tuberculosis, and was compelled by bad health to return home early in 1844.
In the autumn he sailed for the Mediterranean, intending to winter in the south, but died at Malta on 28 November 1844.