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Birth
1839 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Death
1924 (Rolleboise-par-Bonniers, France)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania / France
Often Known For
peasant figure-genre, landscape painting
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Civil War Art
Paris Pre 1900
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An artist known for his depictions of serene, peasant female figures in bucolic landscapes with pristine lighting, Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia and became a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861.
He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with academic painters Charles Gleyre and Alexander Cabanel and shared classes with Renoir and Sisley. In 1863, he returned to Philadelphia to enlist in the army during the Civil War.
In 1871, he re (showing 500 of 11182 characters). |
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