Returning to England in 1882, he settled down to landscape painting, working chiefly in Sussex and Dorset.
[1] At the New English Art Club, of which he was an early member and in whose affairs he took warm interest, he was a regular exhibitor, but he also showed at the Royal Academy from 1883 to 1892 and at the New Gallery.
An excellent and characteristic example of his refined art is the canvas called The Chalk Pit, which was presented by his widow to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
He was also an interesting writer on art, and his book on Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon School (1903; reissued in 1905) is sympathetic and discriminating.
He illustrated Concerning Cats, poems selected by his first wife Rosamund (Ball) Marriott Watson under the pen name, 'Graham R. Tomson' (1892).