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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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