 It was also shown before being sold in large quantities by Bainbridge & Co., a North Shields auctioneers, and featured in several local loan exhibitions.Despite frequent favourable comments on his work, he remained a quiet, diffident artist who died at his home and studio at Borough Road, North Shields, without really extending his reputation beyond his native Northumbria, although he is reputed to have lectured on art in other parts of the country, was a regular visitor to the Berwickshire coastline, and had also worked in Holland.Although much of this reputation rested on his nautical and landscape paintings he also etched subjects for sale locally and was an occasional illustrator of Tyneside publications.