他出生在 伯明翰 他的父亲是一个熟练的裁缝。15岁的他成为一个 平版 。21岁的他赢得了南肯辛顿的奖学金和他有两年的研究设计。有时非常华丽的工作主要是在黄金和白银在 renaissancestyle 。他回到伯明翰，但拿起画笔，全职工作，并于1881当选艺术家的伯明翰皇家协会副。在同一年，他提供了£500一年的工作由思拉普先生（伯明翰摄影师）。有了这笔钱，他和他的家人搬到 纽林 他在那里定居的第一位艺术家一开始记录的渔业社区的生活。

政治上的 左翼 在他的时代，他注意到他的 社会现实主义者 工人阶级的人物形象，特别是 渔民 和他们的家人。他是一个支持者 查尔斯·布拉德劳 ，一个激进的社会主义政治家。自己的工薪阶层的背景，使他能够识别与村民和他们忍受的艰辛，他的许多作品反映了这种同情工人阶级的渔民在他住的。 [ 2 ] 其中最著名的作品是水彩画 男人要女人一定会哭泣 （1883； 伯明翰博物馆和艺术馆 ）是一个基于 查尔斯金斯利 的诗 三渔民 （1851）。另一个是 潮汐之间 （1901； 沃灵顿博物馆和艺术画廊 ）。

虽然一个在纽林艺术家殖民地定居的第一 纽林画派 最初，兰利受益少从它的名气越来越大，部分原因是由于他的工人阶级出身，因为直到1892他画上 水彩画 而不是更著名的基 油 。他早期的训练给他的画光刻技术的细节和纹理，展示自己的技能。

1884，兰利当选的RBSA成员，继续表现出广泛的在英国和国外。 在他的职业生涯，他的名声渐晚。兰利的一个作品被挑选出来作为“一个美丽的、真实的艺术作品” 狮子座托尔斯泰 在他的书中 什么是艺术？ ，而在1895兰利被邀请的 乌菲兹美术馆 有助于自画像挂在那些 拉斐尔 ， 鲁本斯 和 伦勃朗 在他们的伟大艺术家的肖像集。今天，他的作品被认为是“Newlyn学校的“形象至关重要，”旁边的 斯坦霍普福布斯 …最一致的风格和大量输出”。

He was born in Bermingham. His father was a skilled tailor. At the age of 15 he became a lithographer. At the age of 21, he won a scholarship to South Kensington and he has two years of research and design. Sometimes very gorgeous work is mainly in gold and silver in renaissancestyle. He returned to Bermingham, but Bermingham picked up a brush, a full-time job, the Royal Society and was elected Deputy artist in 1881. In the same year, he provided by 500 a year of work by Mr. Thrap (photographer Bermingham). With this money, he and his family moved to Newlyn first artists where he settled a fishing community life to start recording.
On the political left in his time, he noticed his social realist working-class characters, especially fishermen and their families. He is a supporter of Charles Bradlau, a radical socialist politician. His working-class background, so that he can identify with the villagers and they endure the hardships, many of his works reflect the sympathy for the working class fishermen in his. [2] one of the most famous works of watercolor to men and women must weep (1883; the Bermingham Museum and art gallery) is a poem by Charles Kingsley based on the three fishermen (1851). The other one is between the tides (1901; Warrington Museum and art gallery).
Although a settled in Newlyn artist colony of Newlyn school first first, Langley benefit less from its growing reputation, partly because of the birth of his working class, because until 1892 he painted watercolor painting rather than the more famous base oil. His early training gave him the details and textures of photolithographic techniques to demonstrate his skills.
1884, Langley elected a member of the RBSA, continues to exhibit widely in the UK and abroad. In his career, his fame grew late. One of the works of Langley was chosen as "a beautiful, true works of art" Leo Tolstoy in his book what is art? , but was invited in 1895 Langley's Uffizi Gallery helps self portrait hanging in the Rafael, Lubensi and Rembrandt in their portraits of the great artists of the set. Today, his work is considered "critical Newlyn school" image, "next to Stanhope Forbes... The most consistent style and large output".