William Strutt b. 3 July 1825

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Strutt was a productive and versatile painter and a founding member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts. His most famous painting is undoubtedly 'Black Thursday' which was inspired by the bushfires that ravaged large parts of Victoria on 6 February 1851.
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portrait and history painter, was born in Teignmouth, Devonshire, England, on 3 July 1825, the second son of William Thomas Strutt, a nonconformist preacher and clerk with the Bank of England, and his second wife Mary Ann, née Price.

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1992
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1989

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