Dame Laura Knight (1877 – 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolors, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition and who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.
She was an impressionist painter and a member of the Newlyn School of Art. In 1929 he became the first woman artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire, she was created a Dame, and in 1936 became the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768.
Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for being a war artist during the Second World War. Unlike most artists focusing on mainly one subject she became well known for the Ballet, the Theatre, the Circus. Landscapes, Seascapes, Portraits and was the only woman to be given War Commission for both World Wars. She was an official designated war artist at the Nuremberg Trials. She is the only artist to have exhibited at the Royal Academy for 67 years continuously with the exceptions of 1918 and 1922, and she even won an olympic medal!
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Dame Laura Knight or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
She was an impressionist painter and a member of the Newlyn School of Art. In 1929 he became the first woman artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire, she was created a Dame, and in 1936 became the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1768.
Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for being a war artist during the Second World War. Unlike most artists focusing on mainly one subject she became well known for the Ballet, the Theatre, the Circus. Landscapes, Seascapes, Portraits and was the only woman to be given War Commission for both World Wars. She was an official designated war artist at the Nuremberg Trials. She is the only artist to have exhibited at the Royal Academy for 67 years continuously with the exceptions of 1918 and 1922, and she even won an olympic medal!
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Dame Laura Knight or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Dame Laura Knight |
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| 1906, Dressing the Children |
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| 1907, The Elder Sister |
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| 1908-18, A Dark Pool |
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| 1909, the Beach |
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| 1909-10, Boys aka The boys Nevlin Cornwall |
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| 1910, The sun hat |
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| 1910-12, Motley |
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| 1912, Bathing |
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| 1913, Lamorna Birch, and His Daughters |
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| 1913, Self Portrait aka the model |
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| 1913, Self Portrait |
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| 1917, The Cornish Coast |
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| 1916-20, Spring |
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| 1919, Gypsies at Ascot |
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| 1920, Carnaval |
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| 1922, Les Sylphides |
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| 1922, Motherhood |
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| 1922, Old Time Clowns |
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| 1922, The Mirror |
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| 1922, Two Girls by a Jetty |
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| 1923, The Rehearsal |
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| 1926, Ethel Bartlett |
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| 1928, Charivari (also known as The Grand Parade) |
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| 1929, Dressing |
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| 1929, Elsie on "Hassan" |
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| 1929, Susie and the Wash Basin |
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| 1929, The Last Act |
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| 1930, A Musical Clown |
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| 1930, The Three Clowns |
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| 1931, A Seaside Holiday |
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| 1932, Miss Thompson (Miss Patricia Thompson) |
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| 1932, The Ballet Shoe |
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| 1933, Dawn |
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| 1935, A dull day at Epsom |
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| 1935, A Theatre Dressing Room |
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| 1935, Chelsea Embankment |
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| 1936, Ballet |
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| 1938, Circus Matinee |
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| 1938, Hop Picking – Granny Knowles |
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| 1938, Romany Belles |
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| 1939, Fine Feathers |
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| 1939, Land Army Girl |
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| 1939, Take-Off, Interior of a Bomber Aircraft |
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| 1939, The Gypsy exhibited |
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| 1942, George Bernard Shaw |
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| 1942, In for Repairs |
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| 1943, Show me how A Balloon Site, Coventry |
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| 1946, The Nuremberg Trial |
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| 1947, Sundown |
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| 1948, Princess Elizabeth Opening the New Broadgate, Coventry |
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| 1948, The Yellow Dress (The Wardrobe Room, Stratford-on-Avon) |
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| 1955, Joan Rhodes |
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| 1956, Miss Margaret Jane Smythe |
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| 1957, Portrait of Chloe C |
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| 1959, The Pool No.2 (unsigned) |
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| 1967, The Cruel Sea |
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| 1970, Unfinished Portrait Vijayalakshmi Pandit (unsigned) |
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| Portrait of Robert Newton age 15 years |
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