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Dame Laura Knight was born in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire in 1877 and died in London in 1970. She studied at Nottingham College of Art and Royal College of Art.
Knight married Harold Knight, the portrait painter and settled in Newlyn, Cornwall before moving to St. John’s Wood, London. She was an Official War Artist and first exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1903 and continued to do so almost every year afterwards.
A painter in oils and watercolour she mostly concentrates on figurative subjects, especially of ballet, circus, music hall and gypsies. She is an academic painter in the best sense of the word; that is to say her work is representative but her eye, unlike that of a camera, is selective. The art was in what she chose to leave out or to emphasise. Throughout her long life she continued to perfect this technique – Member of the Diaghilev Ballet is typical of her drawings.
Her work is in many public galleries.
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