Harold Knight RA (27 January 1874 – 3 October 1961) was an English portrait, genre and landscape painter.
[1] After spending time in Paris, studying art under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, then at Staithes on the North Yorkshire coast, Harold Knight moved in 1907, with Laura, to Newlyn, a fishing port in Cornwall, where they became part of the Newlyn School.
[1] During the First World War Knight's principles led him to be a conscientious objector, which earned him the rebuke of many of his colleagues and former friends, and put a strain on his physical and mental health, as he was required to work as a farm labourer.
When the war ended, he and Laura moved to London, although they frequently returned to Cornwall to paint.
[3] Knight was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1937, and died in 1961 in Colwall, Herefordshire.