biography
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Knight, Dame Laura
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née Johnson
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1877–1970)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, C England, UK. Trained at Nottingham, she produced a long series of oil paintings of the ballet, the circus, and Gypsy life, in a lively and forceful style, and also executed a number of watercolour landscapes. She was made a dame in 1929. |
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