Harold Knight (1874 - 1961)

Painter, born in Nottingham, the son of William Knight, an architect and amateur painter. He studied at Nottingham School of Art where he won a travelling scholarship which enabled him to further his studies in Paris, 1893-94 at the Académie Julian. He met Laura Johnson, a fellow student at Nottingham School of Art, and married her in 1903. He first exhibited at the RA in 1896 and had his first joint exhibition with his wife at the Leicester Galleries, 1906. With his wife they lived and worked at Staithes, Yorkshire, where they were active members of the Staithes Group of Artists. They also made several working trips to Holland painting at the artists' colony of Laren located about 20 miles south-east of Amsterdam. Harold and Laura relocated to Newlyn, Cornwall in 1908 and joined the artists' colony there known as the Newlyn School. The following year he undertook a series of paintings of women in interiors, a subject dear to him a