[2] Toft's career was dominated by public commemorative commissions in bronze, mostly single statues of military or royal figures.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Toft as one of the major figures of the "New Sculpture" movement following on from William Hamo Thornycroft and George Frampton.

His father was a notable modeller in ceramics, and his brother was the landscape artist Joseph Alfonso Toft.

He created monuments to Queen Victoria for Leamington Spa, Nottingham, and South Shields, and to Edward VII in Birmingham and Warwick.

He designed the coronation medal of George V and Queen Mary (1911) and a statuette of W. S. Penley playing Charley's Aunt for Royal Doulton (1913).