Background
Jutsum was born in London and educated in Devonshire.
Jutsum was born in London and educated in Devonshire.
There he acquired a taste for landscape painting, and on returning to London to further his art studies, he drew from nature, frequently in Kensington Gardens. In 1830 he became an apprentice to artist James Stark (of the Norwich School). He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836 and also showed work at the British Institution.
He continued, however, to exhibit at the Royal Academy, and preferring painting in oil, eventually resigned his membership of the Watercolour Society.
"The Noonday Walk" in the Royal Collection was engraved for "The Art Journal". "The Foot Bridge" is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jutsum died at Hamilton terrace, Saint John"s Wood, London in March 1869, aged 53. Many of his own drawings in his possession and others collected by him were sold by auction at Christie"s on 17 April 1882.
He devoted himself for some time to watercolour painting, probably because of the influence of the work of J South Cotman (an important Norwich School artist), and in 1843 was elected a member of the New Watercolour Society.
