A kneeling knight, a raised sword, a woman in a long gown doing the honors: Edmund Blair Leighton painted the moment just before or just after the story turns, and that held breath is what carries his work into counted cross stitch.
Leighton was English, born in 1852 and died in 1922, and he built a career on historical genre scenes set mostly in the medieval world or the Regency period. The Accolade of 1901 is the painting most people know, even when they do not know his name, and God Speed has had much the same life as a reproduction. His work sits alongside the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, though he leaned far more naturalistic than stylised, which is part of why these scenes still read so clearly.
Edward Hughes and Joanna Mary Boyce worked in the same genre.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Edmund Blair Leighton art prints are easy to find.
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