About Daniel Ridgway Knight: The American artist, Daniel Ridgway Knight was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. Daniel Ridgway Knight was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893.