Rowland Hilder - Artist Info

About Rowland Hilder

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Roland Hilder
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    A landscape painter, etcher and illustrator, Rowland Hilder was born in 1905 at Great Neck, Long Island USA. His parents, of Kentish stock, took him back to England in 1915 when he was ten years old. He trained at Goldsmiths' College School of Art, London and then had an active career for more than fifty years. His work was first shown at the Royal Academy in 1923.

    Rowland Hilder also was a Professor of Drawing for more than ten years at Goldsmith's College School of Art.

    In 1986 Rowland Hilder was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

    Hilder died in 1993. There are two books focused on his work, "Rowland Hilders England" and "Rowland Hilder Country". His definitive book on his craft, "Starting in Watercolour" was re...

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