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Dame Laura
Knight R.A
A figure and landscape painter, Knight studied under Wilson Foster at Nottingham School of Art where she met her husband, Harold Knight. They painted at Staithes, near Whitby and between 1908-18 lived in Cornwall. She exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, was elected an R.A. in 1936 and a Dame Knight in 1929. Knight frequently drew scenes from the ballet, circuses, racing, music hall and gypsy life and was a powerful colourist and prolific and strident draughtsman. She had a retrospective at the Upper Grosvenor Galleries in 1969.
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