Daniel Ridgway Knight,
born in Philadelphia,1839. He is well-known for painting rural scenes inspired
by peasant figures. At the age of thirty-five he had finally found his style,
and his pictures of country folk at work, or more frequently at rest, in the
fields or on the banks of the river Seine, were to bring him fame and success
until his death fifty years later. His peaceful idealization and depiction of
the detached tranquillity of the peasants are what separate his paintings from
those of his contemporaries such as Jean-Francois Millet.
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