Notable portraits include those of Robert Baden-Powell (1929), Queen Mary (1930 and 1932), King George VI (1937), Winston Churchill (1939), Vivien Leigh (1941) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1958).

His paintings brought him both critical and commercial success, which enabled him to set up his own professional portrait studio in Chelsea, south-west London.

After the Great War finished, he met and fell in love with Catherine Gardiner, she immediately became his muse and features in many key work from the period.

A reproduction is in the Office of the Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in Geneva, Switzerland.

Other interesting early subjects include the artist Robert Fowler (1916), physician Dr. Thomas Forrest Cotton (1926), and Sheffield benefactor and business man J.G.

He also painted many anonymous sitters, such as Portrait of an Officer of the RAF (1941), The Silk Scarf (1926), Negro Profile (1935), and Olga (1936).

This ongoing re-evaluation of contemporary British artists working in the first half of the twentieth century has led to several notable canvases by David Jagger appearing at auction in London.

His life and work is the subject of a forthcoming publication, 'The Art of the Jagger Family' by Timothy Dickson and a separate catalogue raisonnè is also under preparation.