Arthur John Strutt (1819 – 1888, in Rome), was an English painter, engraver, writer, traveller and archaeologist.
Life
Strutt was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England. He was the son of the landscape painter Jacob George Strutt (1790–1864) and the writer and traveller Elizabeth Strutt.
After travelling across Italy, in 1831, in retinue of his father, Strutt moved to Rome, where he definitively established his residence. He travelled with his father in France and Switzerland from 1835 to 1837, and later in Italy.
In 1841 he travelled on foot through central and southern Italy and in Sicily. He and his friend, the poet William Jackson (otherwise unknown), started from the Porta San Giovanni of Rome on 30 April 1841, reaching Palermo on 15 December, and arriving back at Rome in July of the following year. An account of this journey is given in his A Pedestrian Tour in Calabria & Sicily published in London, in 1842.
