Gypsy and Girl

A portrait of Granny Smith, the elderly gypsy woman who befriended the artist at Epsom and invited her to visit the romany camp at Iver. She appears in a number of paintings, including the impressive 'Gypsy Splendour' from 1939 (Nottingham Castle Museum) in which she also wears her black feathered hat and brightly decorated shawl.
(see C. Fox, Dame Laura Knight, Oxford, 1988, p.85).