Yacht Racing in the Solent

‘Yacht Racing in the Solent’ an original drypoint etching signed and titled in pencil by the artist Lieutenant Commander Rowland Langmaid born in 1897.

Rowland Langmaid was the eldest son of Captain J Langmaid, Rowland joined the Royal Navy in 1910 and went to sea at the beginning of the First World War serving at the Dardenelles in Hms “Agamemnon” where he made official sketches for landings. Later Langmaid studied at the Royal Academy School and the Royal College of Art.  He held exhibitions at the Royal Academy and in London, New York, and Paris.

He was a highly accomplished etcher as well as a painter in oils and watercolour with a style similar to the famous marine artist W L Wyllie with whom he collaborated in Sea