Daniel Ridgway Knight
Painted French peasant women outdoors
Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Knight was a pupil at the École 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 earned his first major distinction in France at the Paris Salon in 1882 with his large oil on canvas Un Deuil. He would go on to be 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. He died in Paris. His son, Louis Aston Knight (1873–1948), was also known as a landscape painter.
Artworks by this artist (34 total)
- Girl With Water Jug
- The Gleaner
- Punts on a River
- Jeannine Gleaning
- Midday’s Pause
- Après Un Déjeuner; Bords De La Seine 1918
- A restful moment 1878
- Springtime circa 1890
- The Shepherdess Of Rolleboise 1896
- Lost in Thought 1918
- Chrysanthemums
- Gathering Flowers Along The River
- Coffee In The Garden
- The Water Carriers 1892
- A Woman with a Basket
- Laundress by the Water’s Edge 1922
- A moment’s pause
- Picking Flowers
- High Tide, Étretat 1884
- Brittany Girl Overlooking A Stream