Winifred Knights

Italian Landscape

1921

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Not on display

Artist: Winifred Knights 1899–1947
Medium: Oil paint on wood
Dimensions: Support: 305 x 324 mm
frame: 393 x 420 x 40 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1922
Reference: N03681

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Knights studied at the Slade School of Art and won several painting prizes while she was a student there. In 1920 she was awarded the British School at Rome Scholarship in Decorative Painting for her painting 'The Deluge', which is also on display in this gallery. She lived and worked at the British School at Rome from 1920 to late 1924 and painted some figure compositions and landscapes. This is a view of the river Tiber from the outskirts of Rome to the north. It was purchased from the artist the year after it was painted, when she was still only twenty-three.

Gallery label, September 2004

Catalogue entry

N03681 ITALIAN LANDSCAPE 1921

Inscr. ‘W. M. Knights, 21’ b.r.
Oil on wood, 12×12 3/4 (30·5×32·5).
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1922.

The artist's husband W. T. Monnington wrote (13 May 1958) that the ‘Italian Landscape’ is a view of the Tiber from the outskirts of Rome to the north. It was painted when the artist was a student at the British School in Rome.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I