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JOHN WILLIAM BUXTON KNIGHT (SEVENOAKS 1842-1908 DOVER)
A Cornish cottage garden
signed 'JW Buxton Knight' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out on paper
15 x 2334 in. (38 x 60.4 cm.)
Provenance
with Messrs Fosters, London, 1917, no. 70.
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Buxton Knight was a plein-air painter whose focus on the English landscape was total. He was described by contemporaries as 'nomadic' such was his dedication to travelling around the country in search of subject matter. The present drawing depicts the typical granite of a Cornish cottage.

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