Knighton-Hammond was an English artist best known for landscapes, society portraits and industrial paintings.
[1] Hammond was born at Church Street, Arnold, Nottingham, the son of William Hammond (1829-1901), who ran a furniture and general hardware shop, and Mary (1833-1906), née Knighton.
Hammond left school aged 11 and worked in his brother's grocery store before indenturing as a watchmaker's apprentice one year later.
[citation needed] In 1902, he married Winifred Annie Reeves; they had two children, Marjorie and Dorothy.
[5] Knighton-Hammond was commissioned by the Dow Chemical Company in 1920–1921[6] to produce paintings and lived in Midland, Michigan.