John Buxton Knight

Who was John Buxton Knight?

John William Buxton Knight, English landscape painter, was born at 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 his "December's Bareness Everywhere" for the nation in the following month. Most of his best pictures had passed into the collection of Mr Iceton of Putney, Mr Walter Briggs of Burley in Wharfedale, and Mr SM Phillips of Wrotham.