Artist: night Daniel Ridgway America 1839 to1924

Daniel Ridgway Knight was known for his portrayals of peaceful, laborer female figures in rustic scenes with new lighting. He turned into an understudy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861. Afterward, He learned at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with scholarly painters Charles Gleyre and Alexander Cabanel classes to Renoir and Sisley. In 1863, he got back to Philadelphia to enroll in the military during the Civil War. In 1871, he got back to France. He got comfortable in the town of Poissy to be close to the prestigious scholarly painter, Jean Louis Meissonier, who guided his imaginative concentration to worker figures and influenced him with a luxuriously unmistakable style of authenticity. By the mid-1870s, the admired laborer figures turned into his particular articulation. His introduction stood out enormously from the emerging pragmatist development in French artistry that Jean-Francois Millet drove zeroed in on rustic individuals’ difficulties and poverty.