Dame Laura Knight ( 1877-1970) ✽ English painter

Thank you all for viewing and comments! ✽ All the best for everyone Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS (née Johnson; 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970)was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists. Music: Delius: 3 Small Tone Poems: No. 1, Summer Evening