Winifred Knights

Winifred Knights exhibited her work with reluctance, and a retrospective exhibition of her major paintings would total seven in number. She worked inordinately slowly, with consummate care: nothing in her work was left to chance, everything was prepared and thought out. Her reluctance to exhibit was not related to strong self-criticism, indeed the opposite would be true: her son John remembers her total confidence in her work.
She attended the Slade School of Art, London, from October 1915 to July 197, when she won the Second Prize for Figure Drawing. During this period she began to be recognised as an outstanding draughtswoman. In 1920 became the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome.

Works Featured in this catalogue

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Winifred Knights (1899 - 1947)
Lineholt Farmhouse
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Landscape, Piediluco, Italy, 1924
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Paradise,1921
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Compositional study for The Flight into Egypt, circa 1938
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Landscape with Fence, c. 1920
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Study for the Marriage at Canna with a Self-portrait, circa 1923
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Portrait of Colin Gill, c.1921
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Colour Study for Foreground Figure of Woman Combing her Hair, Santissima Trinita, mid 1920’s
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Owl, circa 1922
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Study for Blue Bells, circa 1937
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Study of Bluebells, circa 1937
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Study for the Marriage at Cana, seated nude, three quarter frontal view, circa 1924
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Illustration to Algernon Blackwood’s The Centaur, 1915
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Illustration to Algernon Blackwood’s The Centaur, 1915
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Self Portrait, circa 1916
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Self Portrait inspired by a fashion plate, circa 1914
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Study of Ophrys Bertolonii, commonly known as Bertoloni’s Bee Orchid, circa 1925
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Portrait Study of Colin Gill, c.1921
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Study for St Martin’s Altarpiece, Canterbury Cathedral, circa 1932
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Self Portrait as Little Miss Muffet, June 1918
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Study of a Seated Woman for The Santissima Trinita
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Cartoon for Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours
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A View to the East from the British School at Rome
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Compositional study for Pompilia
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Study of the exterior of a house by Lake Piediluco
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Early compositional study for The Deluge
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Self-portrait sketching at a table
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The Potato Harvest
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Self-portrait
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Study for Jairus’ Daughter
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Mabel Knights seated in a hayfield
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Leaving the Munitions Works, 1919
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Study of Lineholt Farmhouse Facade, c. 1932
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Figure study, St Martin’s altarpiece, circa 1928
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Study for St Martin altarpiece, angel from the waist down
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Study of a Walnut tree for Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours, circa 1930
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Landscape study for Santisima Trinita, circa 1924
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Portrait of Arnold Mason, circa 1919
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Italian Landscape, circa 1924
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Study for Scenes from the Life of St Martin of Tours, circa 1929
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Figure Study, Scenes from the Life of St Martin of Tours, circa 1929
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The original cartoon for The Deluge, 1920
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Study for ‘Design for Wall Decoration’ – Three Women Bearing Baskets of Apples, circa 1918
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Landscape study for Santissima Trinita, circa 1924