[2] Around the age of 19, he fell in love with Alice Mary Saintsbury, an actress, whom he married in 1885, supporting him financially.
[6] During the voyage he painted his female companion, a fine contralto who called herself Madame Cole, and several fellow passengers.
After a year's stay in Hobart, having completed a good many commissions to general acclaim, including a fine pair of portraits of the Governor and Lady Hamilton, which were presented to the Art Gallery of Tasmania,[7] he moved to Melbourne.
[9] In August 1895 the (yet to be inaugurated) Perth Art Gallery was donated his portrait of Sir George Grey.
[13] He spent part of the World War I years as a guest of an Indian Maharajah; he died in Tooting Bec Hospital.