An oil painting by him, "Wet Weather", was shown at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1884.
His pictures for a time were very popular with the public, and examples were acquired for the Brisbane, Hobart, Launceston, Bendigo and Geelong galleries.
However, Henri immigrated to Australia without the family, and went on to marry Robertha McGuigan in Sydney in 1903.
Although his standing as an artist was not high, Tebbitt was a man of some character with a philosophic mind.
Speaking of his own work in his manuscript autobiography at the Mitchell library, Sydney, he said: "I have simply endeavoured, perhaps with a vision obscured, to reproduce as faithfully as I could, nature as I see it, and if my efforts are indifferent, no one regrets it more than I do."