Born in Leicester 13 January 1855, the artist painted at Newlyn title in 1886, the earliest indication of a visit to West Cornwall. He exhibited at the R.A. and the R.I. from 1884 to 1916, works included views of Cornwall, the Midlands, and the Channel Islands. He was painting at Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, in 1907. Catlow died in Leicester, aged 70 on the 7th of April 1925.