c.1882–1884 - employed by William Morris as a glazier and later on inlay work, embroidery, and wallpapers. 1891 - held his first one-man show, ‘From Scheldt to Danube’, at the Royal Arcade Gallery, Bond Street, London. 1891 - began to do illustrations for The Graphic. 1895 - decorated the façade of the art gallery, L'Art Nouveau, in Paris. 1941 - knighted