Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924)

Daniel Ridgway Knight was an American artist🎨 born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success.

Born: March 15, 1839, Pennsylvania, United States.

Died: March 9, 1924, Paris, France.

On view: Huntington Museum of Art, Berkshire Museum, High Museum of Art.

Periods: American Realism, Realism.

Art forms: Painting.

Children: Louis Aston Knight🎨.

Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948)

Louis Aston Knight was a French-born American🎨 artist noted for his paintings of landscapes. One of his paintings, The Afterglow, was purchased by U.S. President Warren G. Harding in 1922 to hang in the White House.

Aston Knight, the son of Daniel Ridgway Knight🎨 and Rebecca Morris Webster Knight, was born in Paris in 1873.

He was raised in Europe and received his early training with his father. He later continued his studies with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre🎨.

Fyodor Antonovich Moller | Academic painter

Фёдор Антонович Моллер (1812-1874) was at one time a very famous painter.

Born to a German Otto Friedrich, Russian artist Fyodor Antonovich Moller did not get lost in a generous talent for national culture of the mid XIX century.

Son of a sailor high rank (and later Secretary of the Navy) by F. Moller and he was preparing for a naval career.

The pupil of the Sea Cadet Corps already in 1826 was made an officer.

But the awakened interest in painting and undoubted talent of the young naval officer "forced" him to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, where he soon becomes one of the favorite students Bryullov.

Henry H. La Thangue RA (1859-1929)

Henry Herbert La Thangue RA🎨 was an English🎨 realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School.

Early life

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La Thangue was born in Croydon, Surrey, a suburb of London, and was schooled at Dulwich College where he met fellow painters Stanhope Forbes🎨 and Frederick Goodall. He studied painting first at the Lambeth School of Art and then, from 1874-79, at the Royal Academy, London, winning a gold medal for his work in 1879.

Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Famed for his sensual figures and charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre Auguste Renoir was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.

He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement, nevertheless he ceased to exhibit with the group after 1877.

From the 1880s until well into the twentieth century, he developed a monumental, classically inspired style that influenced such avant-garde giants as Pablo Picasso.