John Melhuish Strudwick
British, 1849 - 1937
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BIOGRAPHY
John Strudwick began his artistic career as a studio assistant to Edward Burne-Jones. Initially, Strudwick enjoyed the
patronage of wealthy industrialists but his career went into decline when they withdrew
their support. He deliberately left his painting 'When Sorrow comes in Summer Days,
Roses Bloom in Vain' unfinished - an indication of the disillusionment he felt at the
collapse of his career.
He painted in a flat linear style, with great attention to detail, especially in the draperies
and accessories, using rich and glowing colours. The effect is sometimes rather lifeless and
static, but always highly decorative.
George Bernard Shaw wrote an article about Strudwick for the Art Journal in 1891.
An excerpt follows:
'... transcendent expressiveness is the moving quality in all Strudwick's works and
persons who are sensitive to it will take almost as a matter of course the charm of the
architecture, the bits of landscape, the elaborately beautiful foliage, the ornamental
accessories of all sorts, which would distinguish them even in a gallery of early Italian
paintings....'
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