Jacob George Strutt

1784 - 1867 English

British portrait and landscape painter

Jacob George Strutt was a British portrait and landscape painter and engraver in the manner of John Constable. He was the husband of the writer Elizabeth Strutt, and father of the painter, traveller and archaeologist Arthur John Strutt. Strutt was born on 4 August 1784 in Colchester, in Essex, one of eight children of Benjamin Strutt and Caroline, née Pollett. In London, on 8 November 1813, he married Elizabeth Byron, with whom he had four children; their second son, Arthur John Strutt, was born in 1819. Strutt moved to Lausanne in Switzerland in about 1830. With his son Arthur he travelled in France and Switzerland from 1835 to 1837, and later to Italy; they established a studio in Rome. He returned to England in 1851, and died in Rome in 1864 or 1867.

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Influenced by

John Constable

Parent child

Arthur John Strutt Child

Artworks by this artist

The Yew Trees at Fountains’ Abbey 1826
The Green-Dale Oak 1826
The King Oak In Savernake Forest 1826
The Shelton Oak 1826
The Wych Elms at Polloc 1826
Elm at Checquers 1826
The Abbot’s Willow 1826
The Chandos Oak 1826
The Tutbury Wych-Elm 1826
The Fortingal Yew 1826
The Oaks at Burley, called the Twelve Apostles 1826
The Black Poplar at Bury St. Edmund’s 1826
The Moccas-Park Oak 1826
The Yew Tree at Ankerwyke 1826
Frontispiece 1826
The Abbot’s Oak 1826
The Larches at Dunkeld 1826
The Great Ash At Woburn 1826
The Moor Park Lime Tree 1826
The Panshanger Oak 1826