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| 1927 Harold Knight by Ernest A. Bachrach © reserved: collection National Portrait Gallery, London |
Following on from the series on Dame Laura Knight I am featuring her husband Harold Knight.
Harold Knight (1874 – 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter.
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. 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.
After spending time in Paris, studying art under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, then at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, Harold Knight moved in 1907, with Laura, to Newlyn, a fishing port in Cornwall, where they became part of the Newlyn School.
In the First World War Knight's principles led him to be a conscientious objector, which earned him the rebuke of many of his colleagues and former friends, and put a strain on his physical and mental health, as he was required to work as a farm labourer. When the War ended, he and Laura moved to London, although they frequently returned to Cornwall to paint.
Knight was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1937, and died in 1961 in Colwall, Herefordshire.
This is part 1 of a 2-part post on Harold Knight:
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| 1891 Laura Johnson oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1893 When the Cat's Away oil on canvas 76.8 x 61.6 cm |
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| c1896 Girl in a White Dress oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| c1896 Girl with a Red Bow oil on canvas 74.9 x 54.6 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| c1899 Fishing Boats watercolour 36.8 x 40.6 cm Tyne and Wear Museums, UK |
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| 1900 Harvesting the Sea oil on canvas 135 x 175 cm |
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| 1900 The Last Coble oil on canvas 92.7 x 127.6 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| c1901 Grief watercolour 40.6 x 41.9 cm Private Collection |
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| c1901 The Storm oil on canvas 91 x 121 cm Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe, UK |
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| 1903 Thomas Earp, Mayor of Newark oil on canvas 127 x 100 cm Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1903 Wellington James Thompson oil on canvas 62 x 51.5 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1904 Mrs Rosamond Edith Thompson oil on canvas 61 x 49 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| c1905 A Joiners Shop oil on canvas 67.3 x 91.4 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1905c Laura Johnson ( Laura Knight ) watercolour 48.2 x 58.4 cm Castle Museum Nottingham, UK |
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| 1906 The Girl and the Letter oil on canvas 101.5 x 127 cm Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK |
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| 1907 The Young Seamstress oil on canvas 61.2 x 51.2 cm Touchstones Rochdale, UK |
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| c1907 A Cottage Interior oil on canvas 40.8 x 33.2 cm Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa |
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| 1908-09 In the Spring Time oil on canvas 132.3 x 158.2 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
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| c1909-10 Portrait of Florence oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm |
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| c1909 The Letter oil on canvas 162.6 x 129.5 cm Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK |
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| c1910 The Reader oil on canvas 45 x 45 cm Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, UK |
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| c1911 Alfred Munnings Reading at Penlee House oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| c1912 In the Shade oil on canvas 152.4 x 182.8 cm Private Collection |
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| c1915-16 Councillor Robert J. Smith, Lord Mayor of Cardiff oil on canvas 141 x 105.5 cm City Hall, Cardiff, UK |
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| c1915 The Green Book oil on canvas 51 x 46.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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| 1916-20 W. H. Davies, in Cornwall oil on canvas 60 x 49.5 cm Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK |
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| c1916 Dozmare Pool (aka Dozmary Pool) oil on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm |
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| c1916 The Bathing Pool oil on canvas 76.6 x 76.7 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
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| 1918-19 Alderman A. C. Kirk, Lord Mayor and Chief Magistrate of the City of Cardiff oil on canvas 141 x 105.5 cm City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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| 1920 The Seamstress oil on canvas 46 x 46 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
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| before 1921 William Henry Davies oil on canvas 101 x 86 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
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| 1921 The Embroideress oil on canvas 76.9 x 63.6 cm Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, UK |
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| c1921 At the Piano oil on canvas 61.5 x 51 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK |
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| before 1923 The Beach, Staithes, Yorkshire pencil and watercolour 28.6 x 33.7 cm |
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| c1923 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 91.4 x 71.1 cm National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| c1924 Sewing oil on canvas 61.2 x 50.1 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| c1925 Coble at Staithes oil on canvas 32 x 34.5 cm Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby, UK |
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| 1926 Books, Portrait of Laura Knight oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm |
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| 1927 Mrs Dorothy M. Hoover oil on canvas 128 x 102 cm |
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| 1927 Portrait of Elsie Mildred Lawler oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1927 William Stevenson Baer oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1931 Girl Writing oil on canvas 52 x 42 cm Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK |
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| c1931 Girl Combing Hair oil on canvas 40.7 x 50.8 cm Bury Art Museum, UK |
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| 1932 Girl Reading oil on canvas 46.2 x 50.5 cm Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston. UK |
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| c1932 A Window in St John's Wood oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK |
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| c1933 On the Balcony oil on canvas 60.9 x 50.8 cm Private Collection |
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| c1933 The Manicure oil on canvas 45.7 x 50.8 cm |
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| before 1934 Portrait of Laura Knight Sketching oil on canvas 45.8 x 45.8 cm |
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| 1934 Mrs Rosamund Edith Thompson oil on canvas 60.9 x 48.2 cm Castle Museum Nottingham, UK |
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| 1934 William Kiddier oil on canvas 67.9 x 59.7 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1936 Arthur Balfour, 1st Baron Riverdale oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.4 cm National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| before 1936 St. Ives Bay, Cornwall oil on canvas 30.5 x 35.6 cm Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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| before 1936 The Mantilla oil on board 44.8 x 39.5 cm Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, UK |
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| c1937 Ethel Bartlett oil on canvas 61 x 51.1 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |