[2] Later he studied and worked in Italy and France, and eventually he moved to Britain in 1935 after being commissioned to record King George V's silver jubilee.

In 1939 the George Bernard Shaw plays In Good King Charles's Golden Days and Geneva were published with illustrations by Topolski, bringing his work to a wider audience in the UK.

The Chronicles contain 3,000 drawings, and were exhibited in New York City, Moscow, Cologne, Hamburg, Hawaii, Tel Aviv and serialised in the United States, Poland, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland.

[4] Offered to him by David Eccles, it wasn't until 1953, and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, that the windows from the dismantled annex to Westminster Abbey were repurposed to fit Topolski's studio.

Now the Studio functions as an archive and exhibition space operated by Topolski Memoir, the charity set up to preserve the artist's legacy.

[9] In 1959, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, commissioned Topolski to create a mural depicting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Topolski painted portraits of contemporaries, including the authors H. G. Wells, Graham Greene, John Mortimer and Evelyn Waugh, and politicians Harold Macmillan and Aneurin Bevan,[10] He also painted murals, contributed to BBC programmes, such as the caricatures of guests used in Face to Face and designed theatrical sets.

Between 1975 and his death he worked on a 600 foot mural in a studio in railway arches near London's South Bank,[11] depicting events and people of the 20th century.