Victorian Painting Yorkshire Moor High Eldwick by John William Buxton Knight

Fine British Victorian Impressionist Oil Painting Yorkshire Moor Evening Dusk High Eldwick by John William Buxton Knight. Impress your clients & guests with this Yorkshire landscape masterpiece statement artwork for your office or home wall space. Title “Evening High Eldwick by John William Buxton Knight” C1880. Oil on canvas, set in a traditional original heavy gilt wood frame. Having vivid hues, brown, whites, blue, black, grey, maroon & golden hue colours. Circa 1880 late 19th century Victorian era. Unsigned. By the known British artist John William Buxton Knight, plaque with his name on the lower front plaque area. In our opinion this is an exceptional example of his work. Subject beautiful Yorkshire old impressionist landscape view of the known Yorkshire moor, set during the evening near dusk. Higher ground on the right flank of hills, with lower flatter areas centrally and to the left, a couple white sheep can be seen. With some old village buildings seen further back. Eldwick is a small countryside village near Bingley in the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire. It is split up into two main parts, Eldwick, the main populated part, and the more remote landscape of High Eldwick, which is larger but less populated section, situated on Bingley Moor. High Eldwick is the site of Olympic show jumper Harvey Smith's stables, and the Dick Hudson's pub. Above with mainly overcast dark cloudy sky with some lighter areas of light blue coming through. A rather nice display size with the frame being cm 71 high and 86.5 cm wide. With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display. Artist biography John William Buxton Knight Rba (1843 – 2 January 1908), English landscape painter, his works fetch up to $9,574 Us dollars, was born in Sevenoaks, Kent. He started as a schoolmaster, but painting was his hobby, and he subsequently devoted himself to it. In 1861 he had his first picture hung at the Royal Academy. He was essentially an open-air painter, constantly going on sketching tours in the most picturesque spots of England, and all his pictures were painted out of doors. He died at Dover on 2 January 1908. The Chantrey trustees bought Knight's "December's Bareness Everywhere" for the nation in February 1908. Most of his best pictures had passed into the collection of Mr Iceton of Putney. 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, although not in any formal and systematic manner, but by working in the open air and observing nature. Knole Park in Sevenoaks was popular with many notable artists, who Buxton Knight made acquaintance with, helping inform his future path that included: "a high position amongst the great exponents of English landscape…. which Constable and Crome would have been the first to recognise." At the age of 22 Buxton Knight went as a student into the Academy schools on the advice of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, and was there for just two years. 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 exhibited in 1907, Old December Bareness Everywhere, was acquired by the Chantrey Bequest and bequeathed to the Tate for the benefit of the Nation. Combes nominated him for membership of the Art Society of New South Wales, where he exhibited in 1882 and 1883, years that Combes was president. One of his March 1883 exhibits, ‘Halcyon Days by Murmuring Stream’ was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, along with another, ‘Deserted’, when Combes was President of Trustees. Knight returned the compliment by painting and exhibiting at the Royal Academy ‘La Peruse, Botany Bay. After Edward Combes’. Knight kept in touch with Russell during his Paris years and with Roberts when he returned to Melbourne, even becoming the subject of a request for an introduction from Roberts by the young Charles Conder in 1890." 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." Provenance stamped on canvas verso by known British canvas, stretcher & panel London supplier Patrick Shea who was in business from 1871 source National Portrait Gallery. Private collection from the vendor, auction label & Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd We only select & sell paintings based upon subject, quality & significance. We provide our clients with friendly professional customer service. 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