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Daniel Ridgway Knight
Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) was
an American oil painting artist born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre,
and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 he
lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.
He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success.
He was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor,
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the
Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving
the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, 1893.
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