John Sturt

John Sturt (6 April 1658 – August 1730) was an English engraver, apprenticed to Robert White.

He was born in London on 6 April 1658, and at the age of seventeen was apprenticed to Robert White, in whose manner he engraved a number of small portraits as frontispieces to books.

Sturt at one time kept a drawing school in St. Paul's churchyard in partnership with Bernard Lens II.

[1] Sturt executed the illustrations to many of the religious and artistic publications of the time, including:[1] He also engraved the Genealogy of George I, in two sheets, 1714; Chronological Tables of Europe, 1726; and a plate of the Seven Bishops, from a calligraphic drawing by Thomas Rodway.

[1] In association with John Ayres, Sturt engraved the writing-master's books on calligraphy.