J. W. Buxton Knight "The Sheepfold" Oil Painting

John William Buxton Knight (1843-1908) was essentially an open-air painter, constantly going on sketching tours in the most picturesque spots of England. Born in Sevenoaks, Kent, to William Knight (1810–1878; accomplished artist and teacher of art), ‘Buxton Knight’ began his art studies at an early age by working in the open air and observing nature. At the age of 22 Buxton Knight went as a student into the Academy schools. Prior to these formal studies he was already an exhibiting painter, having contributed his first canvas to the Academy at the age of 18 in 1861. He continued to exhibit at the Academy throughout his career and until the end of his life, with a total of 72 paintings. His last exhibition was in 1907 and subsequent to his death the following year, one of his two paintings was acquired by the Chantrey Bequest and bequeathed to the Tate for the benefit of the Nation. An obituary in the Examiner on 15 February 1908 remarked of Buxton Knight’s passing as follows: "Death of a great artist. One of the greatest modern British landscape painters passed away recently, though his death and the loss caused by it to the art of his country have remained practically unnoticed. There are many connoisseurs who hold the late Mr. Buxton Knight to be the equal, if not the superior, of the very leaders of modern landscape painting in Great Britain, though his work, like that of Arthur Melville or J Charles, was not very well known to the large public while the artist himself was still among the living. Mr. Buxton Knight, who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861, excelled chiefly in his strong virile oil paintings of the English countryside, which were always remarkable for their firmness of handling and the sense of structure, of the solidity, of all objects."

The present painting "The Sheep Fold" is an oil on canvas measuring 14"x 22". It is signed lower left, dated (18)99 and is framed giving an overall size of 23"x 30".

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