Brief Biography-William Strutt was born in Teignmouth in 1825. He studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts after spending time with Michel-Martin Drölling, son of Martin Drölling. Strutt moved to Melbourne in 1850. He stayed in New Zealand from 1855 to 1856 and became a successful engraver and portraitist in Australia. His best-known paintings from this era are Black Thursday and The Burial of Burke. In 1862 Strutt returned to England and exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1893. He died at his Sussex home in 1915.