Dame Laura Knight, (née Johnson), DBE RA RWS (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English performer who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was in the midst of the most well-off and popular painters in Britain. Her talent in the male-dominated British art opening paved the pretension for greater status and salutation for women artists.
In 1929 she was created a Dame, and in 1936 became the first woman elected to full connection of the Royal Academy. Her large retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1965 was the first for a woman. Knight was known for painting amidst the world of the theatre and ballet in London, and for physical a engagement artist during the Second World War. She was as a consequence greatly keen in, and inspired by, marginalised communities and individuals, including Gypsies and circus performers.
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