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Dame Laura Johnson Knight was a popular British artist known for her paintings of dancers, gypsies and circus performers, her wartime reportage, and her iconic painting of the Nuremburg Trials (images above, second from bottom), which she attended. Knight also painted landscapes and wonderfully incisive portraits. Knight, born Laura Johnson, had a mother whose own…

Harold Knight was an English painter active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, and the husband of noted painter Laura Knight (née Laura Johnson), who he met when both were art students. Harold Knight was known as a portraitist and genre painter. I find his formal portraits of men to be well executed…

Some portraits of artist’s fathers. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Albrecht Durer, Pablo Picasso, William Macgregor Paxton, M.C. Escher, Maarten van Heemskerck, Laura Knight, Nikolai Fechin, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jules Bastien Lepage)

Another in my series of posts of artists’ self-portraits. The series started when I got tired of hearing about “selfies”, and came out with an attitude of “You want selfies? I show you some selfies!”, but gradually relaxed into an ongoing series based on variety. (Images above, links to my posts: Ivan Shishkin, Laura Johnson…

Though he studied for a short time at an atelier in Paris, English painter Samuel John “Lamorna” Birch was mostly a self taught artist. Birch was one of the earliest of the second wave of “Newlyn School” artists, a group that included Alfred J. Munnings, Stanley Gardner and Laura and Harold Knight. Birch is often…