From painting nudes at a time when it was forbidden to sleeping among the troops in both world wars, the vitality of her work makes her still strikingly relevant “It is my opinion that fine realism is ...

The once popular figurative artist used her astonishing talent to dabble in different styles. But she never quite found the right subject Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since ...

Dame Laura Knight was a British artist known for her figurative, realist, and English Impressionism style. She worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving, and drypoint, often depicting theatre, ...

Why modern England does not produce great painters was partly explained by England’s greatest living woman painter this week when Dame Laura Knight, first and only full-fledged female member of the ...

A painting by one of the leading female artists of the 20th Century has sold for a record price. Dame Laura Knight's artwork, 'Hop Picking', fetched £74,000 at a Cotswold auction. The piece was listed ...

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Knight and her husband fell in love with the Malvern Hills, the gallery said An exhibition of paintings by the first female artist accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts will allow visitors to ...

A medal awarded to one of Britain's most celebrated artists has been sold at auction. The silver medal was presented to Dame Laura Knight in 1894 in recognition of her work. Auctioneers said the ...

An exhibition of paintings by the first female artist accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts will allow visitors to "revisit her connections" with the "beautiful county" of Worcestershire. Dame Laura ...

The silver medal was presented to Dame Laura Knight in 1894 in recognition of her work. Auctioneers said the engraved medal, bearing her maiden name Johnson, had fetched £850. The artist was born in ...