Charles Robert Knight
American artist (1874-1953) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 78
Charles Robert Knight was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States.
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Knight's iconic mural of a Triceratops confronting a Tyrannosaurus, painted for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1928, likely his most famous work![Entelodon (then known as Elotherium), the first commissioned restoration of an extinct animal by Charles R. Knight, 1894[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Knight_entelodont.jpg/500px-Knight_entelodont.jpg)
Entelodon (then known as Elotherium), the first commissioned restoration of an extinct animal by Charles R. Knight, 1894[1]
Leaping Laelaps by Charles R. Knight, 1897--the dinosaur is now called Dryptosaurus
Smilodon from 1903
Knight working on Stegosaurus in 1899
Brontosaurus, 1897![Knight's restoration of Agathaumas from 1897, which was later used as basis for a model Agathaumas used in the 1925 film The Lost World[9]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Agathaumas.jpg/500px-Agathaumas.jpg)
Knight's restoration of Agathaumas from 1897, which was later used as basis for a model Agathaumas used in the 1925 film The Lost World[9]About this person
One of his most famous works is a mural of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, which helped establish the two dinosaurs as "mortal enemies" in popular culture. Working at a time when many fossil discoveries were fragmentary and dinosaur anatomy was not well understood, many of his illustrations have later been shown to be incorrect representations. Nevertheless, he has been hailed as "one of the great popularizers of the prehistoric past".
