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Kent Landscape, 20th Century English Artist, Signed Watercolour
By Rowland Hilder
Located in London, GB
Rowland Hilder
1905 - 1993
Kent Landscape
Watercolour, signed lower right
Image size: 23 x 34 cm
Framed
Though of staunch English stock, Hilder chanced to be born in Long Island, New York, where as a child he caught his first glimpse of pictures hanging on walls when his father took him to the mansions of the resident millionaires. When war broke out the family sailed back to England; and when it was over a perceptive schoolmaster, recognising a natural talent for drawing, set him on the road to Goldsmiths' College, in London. There he joined the etching class, but soon transferred to drawing under the noted illustrator Edmund J. Sullivan, to which Hilder acknowledged a lifelong debt. He developed into a versatile illustrator and draughtsman, with commissions that ranged from a 1930 edition of Mary Webb...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
