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Presentation: Framed
SN: 1648
Pencil
4 x 6 1/4 ins. (10 x 16 cm.)

In a reeded mahogony frame

The Borghese Gardens, situated by The British School at Rome, provided Knights with a setting for many of her Rome School compositions, for instance The Marriage at Cana. The gardens also provided an area where Knight's could avoid the noise of the city. In her first letter home from Rome she wrote:

I can’t tell you how lovely Rome is Mother. The gardens are so beautiful and all the plants and trees are different. The school is a beautiful building also. And it is so comforting to come back to English people after all the shrieking foreigners they are a noisy lot. (5th November 1920)
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 2827
Pencil
4 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (12 x 14 cm.)

Provenance: The Artist's Estate

This is likely to be a study for the Deluge. The model appears to be Arnold Mason, who Knights was at the time engaged to.
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3109
Pencil on tracing paper, 9 1/2 x 5 in. (24.2 x 12.8 cm.)
(13 x 8 5/8 in. (33 x 22 cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3111
Ink on paper, 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20 x 15.5 cm.)
(9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in. (25 x 20.5 cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3118
Pencil on tracing paper, 8 5/8 x 5 1/4 in. (22 x 13.2cm.)
(10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (27 x 18.2cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3119
Pencil on paper, 8 1/4 x 6 in. (21 x 15cm.)
(10 1/4 x 8 in. (26 x 20cm.) framed)

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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3120
Pencil on tracing paper, 7 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. (19.5 x 7cm.)
(11 x 6 in. (28 x 15cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3121
Pencil on paper, 6 x 4 3/4 in. (15 x 12cm.)
(8 x 6 3/4 in. (20 x 17cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3122
Pencil on paper, 6 x 4 3/4 in. (15 x 12cm.)
(8 x 6 3/4 in. (20 x 17cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3123
Pencil on paper, 7 3/16 x 5 3/4 in. (18.2 x 14.5cm.)
(8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (22.2 x 18.5cm.) framed)

This is likely to be a study for one of the figures in the Deluge, Knights winner entry for the 1920 Rome Scholarship. Her sketch books of the period contain numerous studies based on quattrocento works of art, particularly by Donatello and Verrocchio
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3127
Pen and pencil and ink on paper, 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (17 x 9.5cm.)
(8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (21.8 x 14.4cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3128
Coloured pencil on paper, 5 x 5 1/2 in. (12.5 x 14cm.)
(6 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (17.5 x 19cm.) framed)

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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3143
Pencil on tracing paper.
Two pictures (10 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (27 x 26.5cm.) framed) :
- left 7 x 3 1/4 in. (17.7 x 8.1cm.)
- right 7 x 3 1/4 in. (17.7 x 8.1cm.)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3144
Pencil on paper and tracing paper.
Two pictures (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (29 x 21cm.) framed) :
- left 8 x 4 1/8 in. (20 x 10.5cm.)
- right 8 x 4 1/8 in. (20 x 10.5cm.)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3145
Pencil on tracing paper, 11 x 7 in. (28 x 18cm.)
(14 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (37 x 27cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3163
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper. Four pictures :
- top left 4 1/2 x 4 in. (11.5 x 10cm.)
- bottom left 2 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. (5.3 x 9cm.)
- top right 2 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (7 x 6cm.)
- bottom right 4 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (12 x 8.5cm.)
All framed : 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (27 x 27cm.)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3640
Pencil on paper, 16 x 23.5cm (21 x 28.5cm framed)
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Presentation: Framed
SN: 1039
Pencil
9 1/4 x 8 in. (23,5 x 20,5 cm).

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Presentation: Framed
SN: 1211
signed with monogram
Pen and ink 6 3/4 x 4 in. (17 x 10 cm).
Provenance: Patrick Walker
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3394
Pencil, 9 1/4 x 8 1/16 in. (23,5 x 20,5 cm.) (12 x 10 3/4 in. (30,5 x 27,5 cm.) framed) Provenance: the artist's own collection. From her teenage years on, into her mid 1920's Winifred Knights produced a handful of self portraits, usually in pencil without colour. The un self-conscious early portraits are later replaced by increasingly intense and introspective compositions, characterised by a nervous, introspection, as depicted here.
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3110
Pencil and watercolour on paper, 7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.4 x 25.3 cm.)
(9 1/4 x 12 in. (23.4 x 30.3 cm.) framed)
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Presentation: Passe-partout
SN: 3131
Pencil on paper, 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. (13 x 21.5cm.)
(6 3/4 x 10 in. (17 x 25.5cm.) framed)

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Winifred Knights 1899-1947

Painter and draughtsman, born in London, married to the artist Walter Thomas Monnington. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1915-17 and 1918-20. Her teachers included Henry Tonks and Fred Brown and she personified the Slade School tradition under their reign. In 1919 she won the Slade Summer Composition Prize (for Mill Hands on Strike) and the following year the coveted Rome Scholarship. She remained in Rome 1920-25, marrying fellow Rome Scholar Thomas Monnington in April 1924. One of her principal works was The Marriage at Cana for the British School at Rome, now in the National Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington. The Tate Gallery also holds her work, including her iconic winning entry for the Rome Scholarship, The Deluge, 1919. Knights died in London at the age of 48.

Had Knights produced more during her relatively short life she might well today be considered among the major women painters of the twentieth century.

Selected literature: Paul Liss, Winifred Knights, The British School at Rome/Fine Art Society plc, 1995