Strutt was a productive and versatile painter and a founding member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts. His most famous painting is undoubtedly 'Black Thursday' which was inspired by the bushfires that ravaged large parts of Victoria on 6 February 1851.
'PORTRAIT: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart (#3145) has a design for a journal cover with a sepia photographic portrait of Strutt c.1901 surrounded by decorations in pencil, pen and ink with white highlights.'.