Born in 1882, studied at Birmingham School of Art under Henry Payne, Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall. In 1902 moved to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, where his painting 'Faustine' was bought by the French State and donated to the Musée du Luxembourg, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. In 1909 he married the author and playwright Constance Smedley and, like many with connections to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham, settled in the Cotswolds. Died 1972.