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Louis Aston Knight Landscape Oil Painting c1930#1060353

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Louis Aston Knight Landscape Oil Painting c1930#1060353
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Artist: Louis Aston Knight, American (1873 - 1948)

Title: La Varenne (Paris)

Year: circa 1930

Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.

Size: 22 x 18 inches

Frame: 26 X 22 inches





In very good condition apart from patch repair verso and minor inpainting around affected area, otherwise excellent.

Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, NYC



Louis Aston Knight was the son of the American expatriate painter, Daniel Ridgway Knight. Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in America and began studying art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. In 1872, he traveled to Paris and continued to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Thereafter, he remained in Europe, and studied in the academic studios of the Romantic Salon painters, Jules Ernst Meissonier and Charles Gleyre and the Impressionists, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Although Ridgway Knight, spent most of his life in Europe, his American style and technique show through.



This typically American approach towards painting was to influence Louis Aston Knight as well. In 1873, Louis Aston Knight was born in Paris. Unlike his father, Aston Knight was raised and educated in Europe. Knight attended the Chigwell School in England for his Liberal Arts Education and began his artistic training, under the guidance of his father.



Later he studied formally with the great French Romantic painters, Robert Fleury and Jules ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good. has had some restoration work. please enquire</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1930</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:26</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Louis Aston Knight Landscape Oil Painting c1930</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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