1882 and 1883, years that Combes was president. One of his March 1883 exhibits, ‘Halcyon Days by Murmuring Stream’ was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, along with another, ‘Deserted’, when Combes was President of Trustees. Knight returned the compliment by painting and exhibiting at the Royal Academy ‘La Peruse, Botany Bay. After Edward Combes’. Knight kept in touch with Russell during his Paris years and with Roberts when he returned to Melbourne, even becoming the subject of a request for an introduction from Roberts by the young Charles Conder in 1890." An obituary in the Examiner on 15 February 1908 remarked of Buxton Knight’s passing as follows: "Death of a great artist. One of the greatest modern British landscape painters passed away recently, though his death and the loss caused by it to the art of his country have remained practically unnoticed. There are many connoisseurs who hold the late Mr Buxton Knight to be the equal, if not the superior, of the very leaders of modern landscape painting in Great Britain, though his work, like that of Arthur Melville or J Charles, was not very well known to the large public while the artist himself was still among the living. Mr Buxton Knight, who first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861, excelled chiefly in his strong virile oil paintings of the English countryside, which were always remarkable for their firmness of handling and the sense of structure, of the solidity, of all objects." Within a review of an "Art Exhibition of English Paintings" on 2 January 1928, the quality of Buxton Knight was pronounced when describing an exhibited painting of his: "The character of ‘Near Chertsey’, by the late J Buxton Knight, is best described by saying that we should like to see it hung between a Constable and a Sisley – with a Monet to complete the sequence – as marking a definite stage in the logical development of Impressionism." Galleries and Collections of J W Buxton Knight's Paintings Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Art Gallery NSW, Sydney Atkinson Art Gallery Collection Bolton Museum and Art Gallery Bradford Museums & Gallery Burton Art Gallery & Museum Bury Art Museum Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Craven Museum & Gallery Dublin City Gallery Gallery Oldham Hackney Museum Kirklees Museums & Galleries Laing Art Gallery Leeds Art Gallery Manchester Art Gallery Museu de Arte do Rio Grande