William Thomas Roden

On Tye's recommendation, Roden moved to London to become an apprentice to George Thomas Doo.

[2] He died on Christmas Day 1892, at his sister Lavinia's house in Handsworth, after a long illness.

In total, Roden exhibited 86 works at the RBSA Gallery, including 65 portraits (presumably all commissions, since none for sale); a few landscapes; paintings of biblical, literary, or classical subject matter; and some engravings.

For many years William Thomas Roden painted nearly all the presentation portraits that were wanted in the town.

An engraving by Roden, entitled Head of Woman, was presented to the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists by fellow RBSA member Samuel Henry Baker (1824–1909) after Roden's death, and remains in the Society's permanent collection.