(b 1743; d after 1826). English engraver and miniature painter. In the early 1780s he engraved and published small portraits. He then began to engrave humorous stipples after Henry William Bunbury and decorative ones after Thomas Stothard, Francis Wheatley, Angelica Kauffman and other artists, for publishers such as Bull and Jeffryes and William Dickinson. He also worked for Francesco Bartolozzi, for example, in engraving Elizabeth Farren, later Countess of Derby (1791; see O'Donoghue, no. 5) after the full-length portrait by Thomas Lawrence; Bartolozzi substituted his name for Knight's on this engraving. Knight's success was reflected in a flow of popular prints, often printed in colours, such as The Favourite Rabbit and pendant (1797), after John Russell; he went bankrupt in 1798 but continued to engrave into his eighties. He also worked as a miniature painter, having enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1788. Knight was one of the 24 governors of the Society of Engravers, founded in 1803.

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1874–1953, American artist, b. New York City. Knight painted and sculpted animal subjects. He is best known for his murals at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. These depict scenes of prehistoric life based on information from fossil remains. His books include Before the Dawn of History (1935) and Prehistoric Man (1949).

Quotes:

"Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."

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