A collection of my favourite paintings of people knitting - alone, in a group, outside, on public transport or sitting comfortably in a favourite armchair.
Mary Isabella Grant (d.1854), Knitting a Shawl c.1850–1855
Francis Grant (1803–1878)
Oil on canvas
H 127 x W 101.5 cm
Government Art Collection
Artist’s Mother Knitting in a Flat in Paris
Albert Ranney Chewett (1877–1965)
Oil on canvas on board
H 45 x W 37 cm
Bushey Museum, Reveley Lodge
A Woman Knitting mid-20thC
unknown artist
Oil on canvas
H 81.3 x W 64.8 cm
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum
Portrait of a Girl from the Liverpool Blue Coat School 1953
William Charles Penn (1877–1968)
Oil on canvas
H 105.5 x W 75 cm
Liverpool Blue Coat School Foundation
Pierre Jacques Dierckx (1855–1947)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 113 cm
Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service
Alison Prosser (1968–2016)
Oil on canvas
H 155 x W 109 cm
NHS Lothian Charity – Tonic Collection
By the Shore c.1938
James Alexander Hay Hector (1868–1940)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 66.5 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
A Girl Knitting 1872
Thomas Wade (1828–1891)
Oil on canvas
H 35.5 x W 25.5 cm
Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library
Griswold Knitting Machine 1949
Ian Nesbit
Oil on canvas
H 51 x W 61 cm
Leicester Museums and Galleries
Patricia Preece (1894–1966) or Dorothy Hepworth (1894–1978)
Oil on canvas
H 48 x W 38 cm
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Old Woman Knitting 1937
Patricia Preece (1894–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 76.8 x W 61.6 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Philippe Mercier (1689–1760)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
After Marriage 1881
Arthur Howes Weigall (c.1836–1894)
Oil on canvas
H 89 x W 68.5 cm
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Alice Ashley on a Garden Seat 1937
Donald Chisholm Towner (1903–1985)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 66 cm
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum
A Girl in Costume Knitting 1893
Ralph Hedley (1848–1913)
Oil on panel
H 40 x W 29.4 cm
Laing Art Gallery
Catherine Knitting at Cothay Manor 1943
Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook (1907–1978)
Oil on panel
H 41 x W 31 cm
Sir Francis Cook Collection
Clement Burlison (1815–1899)
Oil on canvas
H 76.5 x W 64 cm
Durham County Council (Durham City)
Woman in a Red Dress Knitting 1936
Jesse Dale Cast (1900–1976)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 40.7 cm
UCL Culture
A Knitting Party 1940
Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 45.7 x W 50.8 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Mavis Blackburn (1923–2005)
Oil on canvas
H 70 x W 50.8 cm
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Meditation 1870
Léon Bazile Perrault (1832–1908)
Oil on canvas
H 92.4 x W 73.4 cm
Manchester Art Gallery
Girl Knitting, Portrait of Felicia, the Artist's Younger Daughter 1949
Henry Lamb (1883–1960)
Oil on canvas
H 68 x W 58 cm
Government Art Collection
Family Group 1919
Robert Sivell (1888–1958)
Oil on canvas
H 176 x W 267.8 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting 1860
William Dyce (1806–1864)
Oil on board
H 36 x W 58 cm
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
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Mother Knitting 1962
Elizabeth Passini (1911–1995)
Oil on canvas
H 46 x W 56 cm
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum
Irene Knitting in an Easy Chair
Rowland Wheelwright (1870–1955)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 50 cm
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Mrs Stephen Ellis Todd (1837–1936) 1932
Frederick William Elwell (1870–1958)
Oil on board
H 86.2 x W 68.5 cm
Beverley Art Gallery
Sunday Afternoon 1955
John Mackintosh (1931–1966)
Oil on canvas
H 66 x W 91.4 cm
Glasgow Life Museums
The Felixstowe to Ipswich Coach 1940–1950
Russell Sidney Reeve (1895–1970)
Oil on canvas
H 78 x W 120 cm
Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection
Mr and Mrs Baggett 1956–1957
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 80.2 x W 119 cm
Stanley Spencer Gallery
Lady Knitting with a Vase of Freesias or Crocosmia (?)
Georges van Houten (1888–1964)
Oil on canvas laid on board
H 80 x W 60 cm
Examination Schools, University of Oxford
Interior with a Woman Knitting, a Serving Woman and a Child
Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 64 cm
City of London Corporation
Grandmother Knits 1943
David Simpson Foggie (1878–1948)
Oil on canvas
H 88.9 x W 63.5 cm
Glasgow Life Museums
Girl Knitting 1925
Charlotte Mary Rose Lawrenson (1883–1965)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 56 cm
Brighton & Hove Museums
A Girl Knitting 1874
Théodore Gérard (1829–1895)
Oil on panel
H 64 x W 36 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Kate Ethel Cowderoy (1875–1972)
Oil on canvas
H 50 x W 40 cm
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
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Pierre Jacques Dierckx (1855–1947) -
Kate Ethel Cowderoy (1875–1972) -
Rowland Wheelwright (1870–1955) -
Georges van Houten (1888–1964) -
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