Laura knight

The artist's portraits from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, so long out of fashion, make a fascinating exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Over a long and adventurous career, the flamboyant Briton became a household name, and in 1929, the first female artist to be made a Dame

Bathing

“I want to escape into one of the endless summers of a Laura Knight painting -on the very edge of the land, high above Cornish seas the colour of beetle wings, the flicked white horses, the light on the water, & picnicking & reading & sketching with all the time in the world.”

Artist Dame Laura Knight Long Eaton, 4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970, London

(British, 1877-1970) The Bather signed 'Laura Knight' (lower right) oil on canvas 46 x 46cm (18 1/8 x 18 1/8in

“'The Green Sea, Lamorna', Laura Knight, oil on canvas, 20th cent.”

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The Bedroom. Modern Masterpieces by Frank Rutter (Newnes, c 1920).