English-born American Rococo Era Painter, ca.1700-1780 Related Paintings of Joseph Blackburn :. | Portrait of Colonel Jonathan Warner | Portrait of Colonel Jonathan Warner | Portrait of a Woman | Die Bowdoin Kinder | Portrait of Captain John Pigott | Related Artists: Christoph Franz Hillner painted Holy night in 1767 Olof Sager-Nelson painted Flicka pa blomsterang in 1889 William Henry Knight (26 September 1823 - 31 July 1863) was an English portrait and genre painter.
Knight was born in Newbury, Berkshire where his father, John Knight, was a schoolmaster. He was to become a solicitor, but gave up his law studies after two of his paintings were accepted by the annual exhibition of the Society of British Artists. He moved to London in 1855, taking lodgings in Kennington Road, Lambeth, and supporting himself by drawing crayon portraits while studying in the British Museum and in the schools of the Royal Academy.
