A Liverpool painter who worked in Cornwall, Sussex, Wales, Devon and the Isle of Man. He exhibited at the RA and elsewhere, working mainly in watercolour. It was while working in a cotton merchant's office in Liverpool that he was persuaded to take up painting fulltime. He specialised in marine scenes and coastal villages and Cornwall became one of his regular destinations. He painted a number of scenes of Polperro during the 1880s and 1890s before moving to Anglesey.