During the World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau (WPB). Serving on the Western Front, he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures.
However, he also earned a considerable peace-time reputation for the quality of his water-colours and portrait commissions. He was appointed a trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1929 and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1935.
He lived from 1911 until taking his own life in 1949 in Arundel House (51 Blackheath Park) in Blackheath, London SE3.
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