Daniel Ridgeway Knight Date ca. 1896(1896)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 172.7 X 128.2 cm (67.99 X 50.47 in)
cyf Shepherdess of Rolleboise 1839-1924
Daniel Ridgeway Knight Gallery
Daniel Ridgway Knight was born on March 15,1839 in Pennsylvania. He studied and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were he was a classmate of Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. In 1861, he went to Paris to study at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, and to apprentice in the atelier of Charles-Gabriel-Gleyere.