Laura Knight Portraits

A major exhibition of portraits by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), one of the leading British artists of the twentieth-century.

In the 1920s Knight became famous for her backstage depictions of actors and dancers at the Ballets Russes during the Post-war London season. She also gained privileged access backstage at London’s theatres. In the following decade she travelled for several months with Bertram Mills and Great Carmo’s touring circus painting the performers in and out of the ring.