
Arrival of His Majesty the King at Malta 1943
Rowland Langmaid (1897–1956)
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Painter and printmaker specialising in marine subjects, commissioned in the Royal Navy, rising to lieutenant-commander. He studied with the sea painter W L Wyllie. Showed extensively at Abbey Gallery, RA and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Among prints of his pictures published by W R Deighton & Sons were HMS Victory in Portsmouth Harbour and HMS Victory Under Sail. Accuracy of detail was a characteristic of Langmaid’s work. Lived in London.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)