Charles Knight (engraver)

Charles Parsons Knight (1743–1827?) was an English engraver.

Life

Knight resided in 1781 in Berwick Street,

Royal Academy Schools in 1788, and in 1792 resided in Brompton. He is best known for his engravings, but he also worked as a miniature painter.^[1]

In 1803 Knight was one of the original governors of the Society of Engravers. While residing in Hammersmith, at 83 years of age (1826), he published a portrait of the Rev. Thomas Stephen Attwood, minister of Hammersmith. This is presumed to be one of his last works. His daughter Martha also practised as an engraver.^[2]

Knight was at first employed on downmarket prints, for such works as

Sylvester Harding

's Shakespeare Illustrated and the Memoirs of Grammont. He later obtained a better reputation. He engraved subjects after

Sir Thomas Lawrence, and others.^[2]

Others have been credited with his work, in the past. His engraving of The Spirit of a Child borne to Heaven, after

Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby to Francesco Bartolozzi. Knight was in fact working for Dickinson in the early 1780s.^[3]

^ "Charles Knight Biography". Artfact. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b cust 1892.
^ Clayton, Timothy; McConnell, Anita. "Knight, Charles Parsons". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). "Knight, Charles (1743-1827?)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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