Career
As a student at the Slade School of Fine Arts under Alphonse Legros he exhibited until 1887 at the Grosvenor with Sir Edward Burne-Jones. He indulged in mythological and allegorical themes. Then they turned to fairy tales collected from continental Europe: Indian Fairy Tales (1912), European Folk and Fairy Tales (also known as Europa"s Fairy Book) (1916).
He also illustrated English versions of Tales from the Arabian Nights and Dante"s Inferno.
Jacobs published two books of poetry and a book on human flight. At the end of the 1890s he turned to the painting technique of egg tempera and played an important part in its revival with Birmingham artists such as Arthur Gaskin.
He served as a Secretary to the Society of Painters in Tempera and published in 1922 an article on The Practice of Tempera Painting.