Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Strutt, Jacob George
STRUTT, JACOB GEORGE (fl. 1820–1850), painter and etcher, studied in London, and was a contributor to the Royal Academy and British Institution at intervals between 1819 and 1858. For a few years he practised portrait-painting, but from 1824 to 1831 exhibited studies of forest scenery, and he is now best known by two sets of etchings which he published at this period—‘Sylva Britannica, or portraits of Forest Trees distinguished for their Antiquity,’ &c., 1822 (reissued in 1838), and ‘Deliciæ Sylvarum, or grand and romantic Forest Scenery in England and Scotland,’ 1828. About 1831 Strutt went abroad, and, after residing for a time at Lausanne, settled in Rome, whence he sent to the academy in 1845 ‘The Ancient Forum, Rome,’ and in 1851 ‘Tasso's Oak, Rome.’ In the latter year he returned to England, and in 1858 exhibited a view in the Roman Campagna; his name then disappears. Strutt's portraits of the Rev. William Marsh and Philander Chase, D.D., were engraved by J. Young and C. Turner.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1893; Universal Cat. of Books on Art.]