1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
High Street, Southover, looking West is a 1940 watercolor by Charles Knight, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a quiet street scene in Southover, Lewes. It was painted in 1940 by British artist Charles Knight. Knight focused on recording local buildings during World War Two. The painting includes Anne of Cleves House, a historic building given to Anne after her marriage to Henry VIII ended. Knight made another view of this house too. Check out more of Charles Knight’s work.
Charles Knight’s 1940 watercolour depicts Southover High Street in Lewes, created as part of the "Recording Britain" project during World War II. The composition centers on Anne of Cleves House, a building given to Anne of Cleves by Henry VIII after their marriage was annulled in 1541. The work is part of a larger collection of topographical views documenting British landscapes and structures threatened by wartime changes and urban development. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme employed artists to preserve a visual record of places tied to national…
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Charles Knight was a British landscape painter and stained-glass artist, best remembered for his watercolour paintings of the landscapes of Sussex.
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