Jacob George Strutt
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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Artworks by this artist (50 total)
- The Crawley Elm 1826
- The Wallace Oak 1826
- The Abbot’s Oak 1826
- The Fredville Oak, Beauty 1826
- The Shelton Oak 1826
- The Yew Tree at Ankerwyke 1826
- The Tutbury Wych-Elm 1826
- The King Oak In Savernake Forest 1826
- The Moccas-Park Oak 1826
- The Salcey Forest Oak 1826
- The Sycamore and Lime in Cobham Park 1826
- The Tall Oak at Fredville 1826
- The Silver Fir at Roseneath 1826
- The Wych Elm at Bagot’s Mill 1826
- The Fortingal Yew 1826
- The Scotch Fir at Dunmore 1826
- The Oaks at Burley, called the Twelve Apostles 1826
- The Chesnut Tree Called The Four Sisters 1826
- The Great Oak at Fredville 1826
- The Plane Tree At Lee Court 1826