Daniel Ridgway Knight
Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) was an American artist born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He 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.
He 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.
The catalogue raisonné research on Daniel Ridgway Knight's life and work is being conducted by Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York City.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press
1. The Daily Record, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Jan. 11, 1910
External links
- 87 works by Daniel Ridgway Knight
- Rehs Galleries' Ridgway Knight exhibit Works from the 1880s & 1890s
- Rehs Galleries' Ridgway Knight exhibit titled His Years at Rolleboise
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