English portrait-painter, born in St. Helier’s, Jersey, on the 21st of September 1848; educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He began to study art in London in 1864; first exhibited at the Academy in 1868. He at first devoted himself to subject-pictures, among them being Home Again and An Incident in the French Revolution, but on the advice of his friend, Sir John Millais, he adopted portrait-painting. Of his portraits, perhaps that of Darwin is most generally known, on account of the very fine etching from it by Rajon. Among his other portraits are those of John Bright, Cardinals Newman and Manning, Lord Roberts of Candahar, Sir Francis W. Grenfell, and Justice Manisty. He received one of the two grand gold medals given to England for art at the Berlin International Exhibition of 1886, and was named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1889.
