Besides portraits, he also took photographs of paintings, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and James McNeill Whistler.

[4] Rossetti conducted meticulous control over the poses during the session that took Morris, as well as the clothes they wore and the objects and furniture that were used.

In 1909, he died in solitude in a room in Kensington, on the top floor of Mount Carmel Chambers on Dukes Lane.

Four days later, after the inquest established that he had died a natural death, the newspaper published an obituary, moreover, in which he was praised as "an admirable artist in oil and chalk."

Despite his bankruptcy, it was revealed at the inquest into his death that he had "plenty of money" in the apartment and "substantial balance" in his bank account.

A photo portrait Parsons in 1870 made by William Morris currently hangs in the Victoria and Albert Museum.