Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Laura Knight NPG D49306

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer, issued by Carreras Tobacco Company

Knight studied at Nottingham School of Art in 1900, and there met Harold Knight. After marrying in 1903, they joined an artists' colony at Staithes, Yorkshire, before moving in 1908 to Newlyn, Cornwall. In 1929 she was created Dame of the British Empire, and in 1936 became the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy. Her subjects included Gypsies, dancers and circus performers. During the war, her popularity and distinguished career made her an obvious choice for the War Artists... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.