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Louis Aston Knight
American Naturalist painter
born 1873 - died 1948
Student of: Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911), Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1912).
Son of: Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924).
Louis Aston Knight was the son of the American ex-patriot painter,
Daniel Ridgway Knight. Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in America and
began studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. In 1872, he
traveled to Paris and continued to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Thereafter, he remained in Europe, and studied in the academic studios
of the Romantic Salon painters, Jules Ernst Meissonier and Charles
Gleyre and the Impressionists, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
Although Ridgway Knight, spent most of his life in Europe, his American
style and technique show through. This typically American approach
towards painting was to influence Louis Aston Knight as well.
Exhibitions: John Levy Galleries, N.Y., Nov. 24 – Dec. 6, n.d.
Knoedler - Co., N.Y., Dec 26, 1911 – Jan 6, 1912
Detroit Museum of Art, March 18 – 30, 1914
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, May 1918 |
