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Learn about the life and works of Dame Laura Knight, the United Kingdom's greatest and most famous female impressionist painter. Find images, copyright information, catalogue raisonné and educational resources on her and her husband Harold Knight.
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Laura Knight – Drawings, sketches and Prints Harold Knight –...
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A clown and two performers 1938. Location – Private| Images...
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REPRINT of Dame Laura Knight’s Autobiography OIL PAINT AND...
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R. John Croft FCA is the nearest living relative to Dame...
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- Drawings, Sketches and Prints
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- Harold Knight
Laura Knight nee Johnson aged 14. Location – Royal Academy...
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- Lifetime
1970 Dame Laura Knight Circus Paintings Aquascutum Ltd.,...
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Learn about Laura Knight, a Dame and a Royal Academy member who painted in oils, watercolours and etchings. See her works depicting theatre, ballet, war and marginalised communities.
- British
- August 4, 1877
- Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
- July 7, 1970
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Website. www .damelauraknight .com. Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS ( née Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970 [1]) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most ...
Learn about the life and work of Dame Laura Knight, a prominent English painter in the figurative and realist tradition. See her paintings of theatre, ballet, war and marginalised communities.
A clown and two performers 1938. Location – Private| Images Available From – The Estate of the artist | Oil On Canvas 11½ x 8¼ Inches | First Known Exhibition: Reproduction specifically produced for the Matinee Programme in aid of The King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses – The London Coliseum – 27th March 1939 | Pixels – 1590 x 2221 | 200DPI | Size 2.47MB
Nov 19, 2023 · What is demonstrably clear is that Knight was, as her biographer Alice Strickland recently said, ‘a woman of firsts’. She was the first female artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire, in 1929; the first female artist since the 18th century to be elected as a Royal Academician, in 1936; and the first to have a solo show at the Royal Academy — although she was forced to wait until ...
Laura Knight (1877–1970) National Portrait Gallery, London. (b Long Eaton, Derbyshire, 4 Aug. 1877; d London, 7 July 1970). British painter. In the first half of the century she was one of the most highly regarded of British artists and in 1936 she became the first woman to be created a Royal Academician since the original women members ...