Harold Knight (1874-1961) ✽ English painter

Thank you everyone for watching and for comments! ✽ All the best. Harold Knight RA (27 January 1874 – 3 October 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter.[1] Knight was born in Nottingham, England, the son of William Knight, architect, and studied at Nottingham School of Art under Wilson Foster. Nottingham had a reputation as among the best of the English provincial art schools and Knight won a series of prizes there, most notably for a series of oil studies of nudes. At the time he was considered to be the best student in the college.[2] At the School of Art he met fellow artist Laura Johnson, whom he married in 1903. As Laura Knight, she became well known for her paintings of scenes from the ballet, circus and similar events. (artist) Music: Delius: Irmelin Prelude