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2 unusual facts about Richard Payne Knight


Richard Knight

Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist

Richard Payne Knight

Knight makes much of the need to fragment an image into tonal and colouristic ‘masses’, a view that has been claimed to anticipate the late work of Turner, or even Impressionism.


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Richard Knight had two other sons another Richard Knight (1693-1765) and Thomas Knight (1697-1764), the latter being the father of Richard Payne Knight MP (1750-1824) and Thomas Andrew Knight FRS (1759-1838).


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