Backstage, Hamlet

Location

Country: India
City: Mumbai
Place: British Deputy High Commission

Laura Knight was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire and grew up in Nottingham, where she was encouraged by her mother to draw and paint. Aged 13, she attended Nottingham School of Art where she later met her future husband, the painter Harold Knight. She was drawn to the outdoor life and artistic colonies of Staithes in Yorkshire and, notably, Newlyn in Cornwall, where she became an integral figure of the artistic colony, the Newlyn School, between 1907 and 1918. After the First World War, Knight returned to London where she exhibited work frequently. In 1928 she became a member of the Royal Academy and in the following year she was made a Dame of the British Empire.

Places

Subjects

ladder, Shakespeare, William, drama, stage, actor/actress, genre, man, woman, 20th century costume, dress, curtain, theatre interior

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), chalk, chalk drawing, wash drawing, wash

Artist

Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)

Title

Backstage, Hamlet

Date

Medium

Chalk and wash on paper

Dimensions

height: 34.50 cm, width: 25.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the artist, March 1953

Inscription

BL: Laura Knight

GAC number

2106