Entitled Summer Afternoon when first exhibited in at the New English Art Club in London in 1896, this picture was painted at Vétheuil, France, two years earlier, where the Australian artist Charles Conder had been staying during the summer of 1894 with the Kinsellas, the Blunts and the art critic and future founding member of the Art Fund and the Contemporary Art Society, D. S. MacColl (1859-1948). There were three Kinsella daughters, Louise, Josephine and Kate. Louise, the model for this picture, was a young American of great beauty who in 1894 was also sitting to the American James McNeill Whistler in Paris. She had a love-affair with Conder but afterwards married the Marchese Presbitero and lived in Italy. A watercolour of the same title was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, London, October 1904 (14).