The Soul of the English Landscape: The Life and Legacy of John William Buxton Knight In the golden age of Victorian landscape painting, few artists possessed the ability to translate the fleeting whispers of the British countryside into enduring visual poetry quite like John William Buxton Knight. Born in 1843 in the picturesque surroundings of Sevenoaks, Kent, Knight was a child of the very landscapes he would later immortalize. Raised by his father, William Knight—an accomplished artist and teacher himself—the young painter’s education began not within the sterile confines of a studio, but…