Twelve years later he participated in the art competition at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
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In 1912, Townsend, like his friends, Alfred Munnings and Laura Knight, represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games in Stockholm by entering a painting in the Olympic Art exhibition.