Macbeth-Raeburn exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1881 onwards, and was elected ARA in 1922 and full member in 1933.
His diploma work, from 1921, was a mezzotint after Raeburn's 1793 portrait of Dr. Nathaniel Spens.
[2] He married Isabelle Elizabeth McOscar, and they had one daughter, Rita Macbeth-Raeburn, who was depicted in a portrait by her uncle Robert Walker Macbeth shown at the Royal Academy in 1905.
Isabelle died in 1929, and in 1936 Macbeth-Raeburn married secondly the artist Marjorie May Bacon, who at the time was aged 34.
[3] Macbeth-Raeburn died on 3 December 1947 in Great Yarmouth, the bride's home town.