Signed and inscribed on reverse of old canvas

Oil on canvas, 60 by 50cm (23 1/2 by 19 3/4 ins)

Knight entered the Royal College of Art in the early 1920s, excelling as a prize winner, being awarded both the Landseer Scholarship and the Turner Medal. This exceptionally fine life study shows his outstanding ability as a figure painter, a facility rarely seen in his later work. Knight went to on to be become one of the century’s finest painters of the British landscape, exhibiting widely and being one of the most significant contributors to Kenneth Clark’s ambitious “Recording Britain” project in the 1940s.