1857
oil
canvas
From the collection of Tate Britain
Dominant colour
Beatrix Knighting Esmond is a 1857 oil by Augustus Egg, a British Romanticism work, held at Tate Britain.
This painting shows a woman in a yellow dress with a sword in her hand, standing in a room with a table and a red carpet. A man in a red coat is kneeling in front of her. There are three other people in the room, two women and one man. The woman with the sword seems to be about to knight the man in red. The room is decorated with a patterned wall and a doorway in the background. If you want to learn more about the artist who created this painting, look up Augustus Egg.
Augustus Leopold Egg RA (2 May 1816 – 26 March 1863) was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.
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