Saturday, 22 February 2014

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 Wonderful art

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Daniel Ridgway Knight 
(March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) 
was an American artist born at 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was
 a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,
 Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked
 in the private studio of Meissonier. 
After 1872 he lived in France, 
having a house and studio at 
Poissy on the Seine.

He painted peasant women out of doors
 with great popular success. He was 
awarded the silver medal and Cross 
of the Legion of Honor, Exposition 
Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was 
made a Knight of the Royal Order of 
St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, 
and receiving the gold medal of honor
 from the Pennsylvania Academy of 
the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893. 
His son, Louis Aston Knight 
(1873 - 1948), is also known as a
 landscape painter.

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