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Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS (née Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) 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 .
- Nottingham School of Art
- The Nuremberg Trial (1946)
- Painting
- Impressionism
Learn about the life and works of Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS, the UK's most famous female impressionist artist, and her husband Harold Knight, the 20th century portrait painter. Find out how to reproduce her paintings and drawings, access her catalogue raisonné, and contribute to her biography.
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Laura Knight was an English painter who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. She was a Dame and a member of the Royal Academy, and a war artist during the Second World War. She painted scenes of theatre, ballet, circus and marginalised communities.
- British
- August 4, 1877
- Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
- July 7, 1970
Oct 14, 2021 · Art. This article is more than 2 years old. The life less ordinary of artist Laura Knight. From painting nudes at a time when it was forbidden to sleeping among the troops in both world wars,...
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Learn about the life and work of Dame Laura Knight, an English painter who worked in various media and styles and was a war artist and a pioneer of women's art. Explore her biography, artworks, awards and legacy at Tate.
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 ...
Jul 7, 2020 · Fifty years since her death, we explore the lesser-known aspects of Knight's diverse practice, highlighting her desire to represent the female gaze and marginalised subjects. Dawn 1933. Laura Knight (1877–1970) Royal Academy of Arts. Generally speaking, history has portrayed Knight as an artist of the 'establishment'.
