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Jacomb-Hood was a painter of portraits, genre and historical subjects as well as an illustrator, etcher and sculptor. He exhibited with various societies and was Vice-President of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists. In his role as an illustrator he worked for The Graphic, who sent him to Delhi for the Durbar in 1902, on the Indian tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1905, and on King George V's tour of India in 1911, when he was a member of his personal staff. He painted portraits in both India and England.