The drawing master there was William Coulter of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
From 1857 until the early 1890s George exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and also at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
He was later appointed Professor of Architecture by the Royal Hibernian Academy.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Grosvenor Gallery, Agnew and Sons Gallery and Dowdeswell Gallery in London, as well as at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery, and joined the New English Art Club in 1886.
Elsewhere her work was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Hibernian Academy; Royal Cambrian Academy; Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours; Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Abbey Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Royal Society of Artists Birmingham; Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; and at Bristol, Derby, Oldham, Hull, Newlyn, Southport, and Aberdeen.
He has exhibited internationally, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Royal Hibernian Academy; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Künstlerverein Malkasten; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; Galerie der Stadt Remscheid and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Royal Navy | Royal Air Force | Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Royal Dutch Shell | Russian Academy of Sciences | Royal Society | Royal Albert Hall | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Opera House | Royal Victorian Order | Royal Engineers | Royal Australian Navy | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Royal National Theatre | Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Air Force | Royal Court Theatre | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Royal Marines | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Commission | Royal Academy of Music | Anne, Princess Royal | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | Royal Flying Corps | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
He was taught by William Orpen and became a professor of painting and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.