John Brett (b 1831)
See John Brett’s wikipedia entry
The Dictionary of National Biography (1912) on John Brett (the painter). “BRETT, JOHN (1831–1902), landscape painter, born at Bletchingley, Surrey, on 8 Dec. 1831, was eldest son of Captain Charles Curtis Brett of the 12th lancers by his wife Ann Philbrick. […] He died in his house at Putney on 8 Jan. 1902. He married in 1870, and had four sons and three daughters who survived him. A portrait in oils by himself, painted about 1865, belongs to his son, Mr. Michael Brett.”
The current ODNB article (behind a paywall) adds “Captain Charles Curtis Brett (1789–1865), an army veterinarian” and “Ann Pilbean (b. 1808/9)”. “About 1870 Brett met, and later married, Mary Ann Howcroft (b. 1844/5), with whom he had seven children, the first being born in either 1871 or 1872.”
His parents were Charles Curtis Brett and Ann Pilbean.
John settled and had a family with Mary Ann Howcroft.