 He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840, a work inspired by Lord Byron's poem "The Giaour" (now lost) and then completed a version of "The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots", with his cousin and future wife Elisabeth Bromley as one of his models.He lived in Montmartre with his new wife and aging father in 1841.He painted "Manfred on the Jungfrau", inspired by Lord Byron's poem "Manfred" while he was in Paris.