Description: Harold Knight (1874-1961) was born in Nottingham, the son of William Knight, an architect and amateur artist. He studied at Nottingham School of Art under William Foster, where he met Laura Johnson, his future wife, and later studied in Paris. Harold Knight's reputation grew as a successful portrait painter and he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1896. Harold and Laura Knight painted extensively in Stiathes, a fishing village that had attracted many artists, and it was probably here that they heard favourable reports about Newlyn. In 1907, they came to the village, but after a few years chose to settle in the Lamorna valley with contemporaries such as Alfred Munnings and Lamorna Birch. This time in Lamorna, before the outbreak of the First World War, was for Harold Knight a very productive time; he suffered greatly during the war because of his convictions as a conscientious objector, being forced to do manual labour for which he was unfit. In 1918, the Knights moved to London, where Harold was made an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1928, a year after Laura Knight, and in 1937 a Royal Academician. (information from www.chain.org.uk) William Kiddier (1860-1934) was born at Loughborough but spent almost the whole of his life in Nottingham. He was an artist, poet, writer and businessman, owning an old established brush making business on South Parade, Nottingham. He painted in oils, chiefly landscapes, also black and white drawings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and at Nottingham Castle Art Gallery. He was a founder member and the first president of 'the Atelier Society' Nottingham in the early 1890's which ultimately became the Nottingham Society of Artists.