ARTHUR HENRY
KNIGHTON-HAMMOND
R.I., R.W.S., R.O.I., P.S.
(1875 - 1970)
"Cloudy Sky, Autumn
Morning near Misterton"
Watercolour heightened with
bodycolour. Signed. 11 ¼" x 15
½"
IMAGE
Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond was a landscape painter in oil and
watercolour and was born at Arnold in Nottinghamshire on 18th September 1875. He studied at the
Nottingham School of Art under Wilson Foster, at the Westminster School of Art
and also in Paris and Venice. In 1933 he was elected
Member of the Royal Institute and was also a Life Member of the American
Watercolour Society as well as Honorary member of the New York Watercolour Club
and Member of the Societe Internationale des Aquarellistes, Paris.
In 1938 he was elected Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and
in 1940 he became a Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour. He
exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Baillie Gallery, the Fine Art Society,
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester
City Art Gallery, the New Gallery, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society
of British Artists, the Pastel Society, the Royal Institute, the Royal
Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, in Paris at the New Young American
Watercolour Society and also extensively abroad, painting widely in France and
Italy, where he lived for many years. A painting of Epsom Downs by
Knighton-Hammond is in the possession of the French Government at the Jeu de
Paume and work by him is also held in the permanent collection of the Rochdale Art Gallery. He died at Seaborough in Devon.
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