page_title: John Melhuish Strudwick
hierarchical_section_title: John Melhuish Strudwick
caption_attribution_description: English: The inspiration for this painting is "The Faerie Queene", by Edmund Spenser from the end of the 1500s. The enchantress Acrasia is depicted in the 'Bower of Bliss' surrounded by handmaidens with a knight at her mercy.
context_page_description: John Melhuish Strudwick, was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter, the son of William Strudwick and Sarah Melhuish.
context_section_description: John Melhuish Strudwick (6 May 1849 in Clapham, London – 16 July 1937 in Hammersmith), was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter, the son of William Strudwick (1808–1861) and Sarah Melhuish (1800–1862).
caption: Acrasia, c. 1888
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