John Melhuish Strudwick

John Melhuish Strudwick (1849–1937) was a late Pre-Raphaelite painter who worked as a studio assistant to John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and Edward Burne-Jones before establishing an independent practice of densely allegorical, jewel-toned panels. His patrons included George Howard, the 9th Earl of Carlisle, and the wealthy industrialist William Imrie of Liverpool. Strudwick worked extremely slowly, producing only one or two major canvases a year.

Strudwick painted in a meticulous late Pre-Raphaelite manner with rich gold-and-jewel tones, precise drawing, and densely symbolic subjects derived from Burne-Jones and Stanhope. His surfaces are highly finished.

Strudwick carried the Pre-Raphaelite manner into the early twentieth century, producing some of the movement's most refined late allegorical compositions.