Rothenstein described Conder's work during the late Spring of 1893 as the best he ever did. He singles out Orchard on the Seine and two other pictures painted during these idyllic months in and around Vetheuil which he says give "a very personal interpretation of the mood of late Spring, fresh and gentle yet full of the promise of the radiant splendour of Summer". Of these two pictures "Springtime" is now in the Tate Gallery, London and "Blossom at Dennemont" is in the Ashmolean, Oxford.
Arthur Blunt was a son of the vicar of Chelsea, and was a painter whose own style owed much to Conder and his wife. Mrs. Blunt first met Conder in 1893 when her husband took her to Conder's studio in Paris. He was then at work on 'The Meeting of Dante and Beatrice'.

In 1894 Conder travelled with the Blunts and the American Kinsella sisters to Vetheuil for the summer.
(See J. Rothernstein, Op. Cit, pp.82,83)