Laura
Johnson
was born in Long Eaton in 1877. She studied art in Nottingham
andwhile there married the portrait painter, Harold Knight (1874-1961).
Knight produced a long series of oil paintings of the ballet, the
circus and gipsy life. Knight established herself as the most important
woman artist in Britain and in 1936 became the first woman to be elected
to the Royal Academy since 1760.
During the Second World War Knight became an
official war artist and was sent to cover the Nuremberg
War Crimes Trials. In later life she concentrated on watercolour
landscapes.
Laura Knight
died
in 1970.
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