Laura Knight (1877-1970), Artist; wife of Harold Knight
Dame Laura Knight
Sitter associated with 26 portraits
Artist of 2 portraits
Born Laura Johnson, she went to Nottingham School of Art in 1900. She married Harold Knight in 1903, and with him joined the artists' colony at Staithes in Yorkshire, moving in 1908 to Newlyn, Cornwall where they stayed throughout the war. Created a Dame of the British Empire in 1929, Knight was only the third woman elected to the Royal Academy in 1936. Her retrospective at the RA in 1965 was the first accorded to a woman. As an Official War Artist in the Second World War, Knight recorded the Nuremburg Trials.
by James Jarché, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 28 April 1933
NPG x134148
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19409
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19410
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19411
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19412
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19413
by Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 20 February 1936
NPG x19414
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1936
NPG x134172
by Bassano
vintage print, 20 February 1936
NPG x85440
by Bassano
vintage print, 20 February 1936
NPG x85441
by Bassano
vintage print, 20 February 1936
NPG x85442
Laura Knight; Doris Margaret ('Dod') Procter (née Shaw)
by Edward George W. Malindine, for Daily Herald
modern bromide print from original negative, 30 April 1937
NPG x74795
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence; Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence; Laura Knight
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vintage bromide print, circa 1937
NPG x137321
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by Wide World Photos
vintage press print, 27 January 1946
NPG x137008
by Madame Yevonde
bromide print on velvet card mount, 1967
NPG x26356
by Madame Yevonde
bromide print on velvet card mount, 1967
NPG x26358
by Madame Yevonde
bromide print on velvet card mount, 1967
NPG x26357
by Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski
bromide print on card mount, 1967
NPG x13730
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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