To the Abbey, 2 June 1953

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

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

horseback, drum (as subject), band, brass band music, musician, topography, tree, horse, rain, crowd, military uniform, bearskin, flag, crown, parade, soldier, guardsman, coronation, street decorations, street, archway

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)

Title

To the Abbey, 2 June 1953

Date

2 June 1953

Medium

Charcoal and chalk on paper

Dimensions

height: 38.50 cm, width: 28.50 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist, April 1953

Inscription

BL: Laura Knight

GAC number

2448