Artist

John William Buxton Knight

John William Buxton Knight is an Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John William Buxton Knight spent decades wandering the English coast, sketchbook always in hand, painting the same patch of shoreline at different tides. He was the kind of artist who’d sit in a downpour just to watch rain blur his watercolours into the paper. His work slides between quiet realism and dreamy suggestion, as if the sky and sea are holding hands.

You’ll get it fast by flipping to Ramsgate, 1895, watercolour, just a beach and boats that look like they’re dissolving at the edges.

Works by John William Buxton Knight

Collections represented

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