He is notable as the artist of the first picture of a woman naval officer added to the collection of the Royal Museums Greenwich in London.
After 1918 he spent time at the Académie Colarossi, an art school in Paris.
[2] His works are held in several public galleries and museums such as the Aberdeen Archives, Galleries and Museums[3] and his portrait of Tony Smith GC is in the Imperial War Museums collections[4] A print of a photograph of him made in 1954 by Howard Coster is held in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[5] In 2023 his pastel drawing of an anonymous Wren officer was acquired by the Royal Museums Greenwich in London.
In his later years he moved back to Leeds and died in Rothwell, Yorkshire on 9 November 1961.