拍品專文
In April 1901 a writer for the Saturday Review commented on a visit to the New English Art Club, 'And when, among the jumbled observances of my Spring Festival, I paid my visit to the New English Art Club, I found as always, in the painting of Mr Steer, something congruous with that experience of light undefiled and colour born again ... To this painter it is given to make living colour out of pigment, and the more the fitful sunshine lightens upon it, the more its radiance quickens. I shall see a great deal of pigment in the coming month, tamed into official systems, pensioned off into decent retirement, lashed in tormented morbundity, cooked into various careful glues, jams and poisons, but I hardly dare expect to find anything in the English painting so in tune with the Ambarvalia, its sacred light and flowers' (see D.S. MacColl, op. cit., p. 53).