Painter · American
Around Giverny
Daniel Ridgway Knight
An American painter of French peasant women, settled at Poissy and then Rolleboise, on the Seine.
- Dates1839 — 1924
- NationalityAmerican
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthChambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography
Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and then at the École des beaux-arts in Paris in Charles Gleyre’s studio, he went on to Meissonier’s private atelier. Settled in France after 1872, he specialised in scenes of peasant women out of doors, painted from models posing in a glass studio and outside, in an academic manner that idealises rural life. Silver medal and the cross of the Légion d’honneur at the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
Around Giverny
In 1862 he entered Charles Gleyre’s studio, where a young man from Le Havre named Claude Monet was working at the same time; their paths soon diverged. He had a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine, then worked at Rolleboise, as his titles attest. The exact date of his move to Rolleboise could not be established.
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- 1839Born — Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- 1924Died
