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Harold Knight Art

British, 1874-1961

Harold Knight was born in Nottingham, the son of an architect, and studied at the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University under Wilson Foster. It was at the School of Art that he met his future wife, Laura Johnson, who he married in 1903. After spending time in Paris and then at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, Harold Knight moved to Newlyn, with Laura, in 1907. The couple mainly lived and worked in Lamorna, becoming key figures in the Lamorna group, and they remained in Cornwall until 1919. Knight was a pacifist and refused to enlist for service in the Great War. He faced a tribunal to test his beliefs and he was put to work in north Cornwall, hoeing vegetables. Some artists from Lamorna established a temporary base near Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor and Knight relished their company. He exhibited at Warrington (Warrington Museum & Art Gallery), Salford Quays (The Lowry) and Birkenhead (Williamson Art Gallery).

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Artist: Harold Knight
The Maiden - British Newlyn exhib art nude Laura Knight portrait oil painting
The Maiden - British Newlyn exhib art nude Laura Knight portrait oil painting

The Maiden - British Newlyn exhib art nude Laura Knight portrait oil painting

By Harold Knight

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This stunning exhibited nude portrait oil painting is by noted British Newlyn School artist Harold Knight. `The Maiden` was painted at Dozmary. The Belgrave Gallery catalogue 1986 suggests the sitter is in fact his wife, Laura Knight the noted artist. The sensuous understanding of the flesh tones and anatomy reveals the qualities that established Knight's reputation as a leading portrait painter after the War. This picture may be dated to c.1916. A really lovely portrait by a much sought after artist. Signed lower left. Provenance. Fifty Years Ago Exhibition, RWS Galleries, June 1965, no. 200. Miles Lamdin Gallery, London. Belgrave Gallery February 1986 which suggests in their catalogue the sitter is Laura Knight. Shades of British Impressionism...

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