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Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) was an American artist born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Knight was born on March 15,1839 in Pennsylvania. He studied and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were he was a classmate of Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. In 1861, he went to Paris to study at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, and to apprentice in the atelier of Charles-Gabriel-Gleyere. He returned to Philadelphia in 1863 to serve in the Union Army. During the war, Knight practiced sketching facial expressions and capturing human emotion in his work. He sketched battle scenes, recording the war for history. He founded the Philadelphia Sketch Club, where he showed works that dealt with the Civil War, mythology, and scenes from opera. In 1871 Knight married Rebecca Morris Webster and after the wedding he began working as a portrait painter in order to make enough money to return to France.
Knight’s works represent so many aspects of Nineteenth Century painting, including history, genre, landscape, portrait, and floral themes. In each work, all that is aesthetic is recorded with fine detail and skill. In order to faithfully record the scenery, Knight studied the different phases of the day and their effects on the environment. Knight built a glass studio outside of his home, enabling him to paint outdoors, even in the dead of winter. Whether he was concentrating on the evening with the glow of moonlight upon the Seine River or on a young woman in a brightly colored flower garden at midday, each scene is depicted with great detail and with specific attention to a realistic portrayal of the landscape.
Knight painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893. His son, Louis Aston Knight (1873 - 1948), is also known as a landscape painter.
We are offering handmade art reproduction of Knight`s oil paintings as below:
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings Hailing the Ferryman
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings The Honeymoon Breakfast
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings A Passing Conversation
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings Maria on the Terrace with a Bundle of Grass
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings The grass cutter
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings Maria and Madeleine on the Terrace
Daniel Ridgway Knight Paintings Young Girl by a Stream
Daniel Ridgway Knight Pickings Daydreaming Painting
Knight Picking Picking Flowers Painting
Knight Picking Etretat Sur Mer Painting
Knight Picking A Pensive Monent Painting
Knight Picking A Field of Flowers Painting
Knight Picking In the Garden Painting etc...
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