William Strutt

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William Strutt. Self-portrait, 1845

William Strutt (born July 3, 1825 in Teignmouth , † January 3, 1915 in Wadhurst , East Sussex ) was an English artist and painter . He lived and worked in Australia and devoted himself to portrait and history painting .

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William Strutt grew up in a family of artists, his grandfather Joseph Strutt was a writer and painter, his father William Thomas Strutt was involved in miniature painting . William Strutt studied in England and u. a. in Paris . In July 1850 he traveled to Australia , where he finally got married. In Melbourne he first worked as an illustrator for Australian Magazine . Then Strutt worked, in the wake of the gold rush in Australia at that time, as a gold digger in the Ballarat area for eighteen months , but had little success, which is why he finally returned to Melbourne in 1853. From then on, even after returning to his English homeland in 1862, he devoted himself to his artistic work and made a name for himself in artistic circles. The portrait and history painter dealt u. a. with current topics at the time, for example B. the Black Thursday Bushfires , the bushfires that hit Australia in February 1851. This event led to one of Strutt's most famous works, the oil painting Black Thursday, February 6th , which is now in the State Library of Victoria . He made various paintings for the Burke and Wills expedition . a. well-known personalities of Australia at that time as the motif. A major part of his work is now in the National Library of Australia .

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Painting Black Thursday by William Strutt

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SURNAME Strutt, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Teignmouth
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1915
Place of death Wadhurst , East Sussex