Portrait head of Charles Conder

‘In 1892 he met D.S. MacColl, who was in Paris writing up the Salon for L’Indépendence Belge. MacColl invited him to lunch; Conder failed to keep the appointment, but by chance the two men met in the street the next day, Conder dejected after a wild night. Though inauspicious in its beginnings, a friendship grew up between the two that lasted until Conder’s death.’ (J. Rothenstein, The life and death of Conder, London, 1938, pp.81-2). MacColl, ‘the enfant terrible of English Art Criticism at the time’ (Sheffield, 1967), published the first important criticism of Conder’s work in The Studio, vol. 13, May 1898.