{"product_id":"arthur-henry-knighton-hammond-9780718828240","title":"Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn   absorbing study of the artist, establishing his name among the major British   painters of the 20th century. Includes reproductions of many of his best   works.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond was born in 1875 at Arnold, Nottingham, the youngest   son of a modest shopkeeper and his wife. Leaving school at the age of 11, he   was reluctantly apprenticed to a local watchmaker but never gave up his   determination to study art and become a painter. For some years he was   obliged to limit his passion to evening classes at the Nottingham School of   Art and the occasional day snatched from work on the pretext of illness or   convalescence. None the less, his natural ability shone through, and in 1900   he moved to London to make a living as an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     This was to be the start of a long and prolific career, which encompassed   periods as a landscape painter, a society portraitist and an industrial   artist. Knighton-Hammond's subjects ranged from the serene beauty of the   Derbyshire dales and the picturesque charm of the French Riviera, to the   dynamic interiors of the Dow Chemical Plant in Midland, Michigan, and from   the most celebrated figures of his generation to colourful local characters   in Sussex. His work took him all over Europe and to the United States,   although his first love remained the English countryside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Admirers and collectors of his art included members of the Greek Royal   family, American industrialists, English aristocrats and fellow artists.   Augustus John, noted for his harsh criticisms of his brother artists,   exclaimed upon seeing one of Knighton-Hammond's numerous exhibitions in   France, \"That man is the greatest English painter in water-colour of our   time\". It is, then, a curious anomaly that until now there has been no   biography of this remarkable painter and that, since his death in 1970 at the   age of 94, his works have received very little attention. At last this   omission has been rectified with this, the first full biography of one of   England's great water-colourists. It includes a catalogue raisonné of the   artist's work together with a complete list of his exhibitions and of his   paintings currently in public collections.","brand":"Peter Norris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056373342459,"sku":"9780718828240","price":76.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_adb134ee-5092-4577-ab58-d8d08a4e1641.jpg?v=1783499079","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/arthur-henry-knighton-hammond-9780718828240","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}