Rowland Hilder's England

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.