Daniel Ridgway Knight Art
1839-1924
Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Knight was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872, he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.
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Artist: Daniel Ridgway Knight
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Graphite on wove paper
Unsigned
Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010
Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches
Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York
The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre.
"Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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1890s Abstract Impressionist Daniel Ridgway Knight Art
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Graphite
The Island, DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT - American Impressionist, Realism, Landscape,
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower left, Ridgway Knight
Artist biography
American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1872 he lived and worked at Poissy on the River Seine, just to the west of Paris.
Best known for his landscapes and depictions of peasant women in the fields, Knight earned distinction at the Paris Salon of 1882. He went to be was awarded the Silver Medal and Cross of the Legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Gold Medal of Honour from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 and in that same year was created a Knight of the Royal Order...
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Daniel Ridgway Knight Art
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Canvas, Oil
A Thoughtful Moment
By Daniel Ridgway Knight
Located in Missouri, MO
Daniel Ridgway Knight
"A Thoughtful Moment"
Oil on Panel
Signed Lower Left "Ridgway Knight, Paris"
Framed Size: 12.5 x 14.5 inches
Site Size: 8.5 x 11.5 inches
Daniel Ridgway Knigh...
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Late 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Daniel Ridgway Knight Art
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Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
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