"Picking Berries" by Daniel Ridgway Knight, Signed Ridgway Knight

The Harvesters Paul Albert Baudouin (French, 1844-1931) signed and dated P. Baudouin 1878 Literature: Benezit volume 1 p. 873 Provenance: Sothebys, New York, 2001 Born ...

Louis Emile Adan, (French, 1839-1937) Vue Depuis la Terrasse, Automne black and brown pen and ink on cardboard, signed lower right, the reverse with two French gallery labels, one w...

Charles Sillem Lidderdale(British, 1830-1895) The Intruders initialed C S L (lower right, appears to be integrated into the work) and initialed C S L 68 (lower left, in red). C...

The flower girl by Louis Marie de Schryver (French 1862-1942) dated '96 and signed Louis de Schryver on verso. Oil on panel. Measuring 6 1/8 by 4 1/2 inches. Literature: Benezit ...

Untitled (Woman working in the fields) Graphite on wove paper Unsigned Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010 Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos) Condition: Excellent Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre. "Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...

Antiques of London A charming print of the painting “Picking Flowers” by Alfred Glendening Jr., capturing a peaceful pastoral scene filled with light, gentleness, and classic Engl...

Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 ⅛ x 21 ⅝ inches) Signed lower left, Ridgway Knight Artist biography American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Pennsylvania and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1872 he lived and worked at Poissy on the River Seine, just to the west of Paris. Best known for his landscapes and depictions of peasant women in the fields, Knight earned distinction at the Paris Salon of 1882. He went to be was awarded the Silver Medal and Cross of the Legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in 1889, the Gold Medal of Honour from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1893 and in that same year was created a Knight of the Royal Order...

A charming late 19th-century watercolour by George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) depicts a father and daughter harvesting grapes from their cottage vine. The painting is presented in ...