Charles Parsons Knight

He was educated by his father, who was a scholar, and the friend of the artists and literary men of Bristol: George Cumberland, Sr., the Rev.

He entered Messrs. Green's service as a midshipman, but after one voyage to Calcutta and back he gave up the profession.

He then pursued art studies under no regular master, but drew and painted in the life school of the Bristol Academy.

He first exhibited in London, at the Suffolk Street Galleries, in 1853, a picture called “The Mumbles Head, Glamorganshire.” His first contribution to the Royal Academy was “Durham from the North,” in 1857.

Altogether, he exhibited some 110 pictures in London, mostly views of the coast, noted for the drawing of waves, rigging, and hulls of ships, and for the study of cloud and light effects.