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London, Feb, 12.
Dame Laura Knight, the English painter, was to-day elected a Royal Academician.
She Is the frst woman to be so honoured since the two elected at the foundation of the Royal Academy.
Daughter of Mr, Charles Johnson, Dame Laura Knight was educated at Brinelife, Nottingham, and subsequently' studied at the Nottingham School of Art, She married Mr, Harold Knight, also a famous painter, in 1903 when she rst exhibited atthe Royal Academy.
Her works are represented in art galleries all over the English-speaking world, She and her husband have lived at Stalthes (Yorkshire), in Holland, and Newlyn (Cornwall),'and her outdoor pictures are largely' of those places—Router.
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