... Hylas and the Nymphs" has been the most widely exhibited of all his works; from the Paris Exhibition of 1900 to the Arts Council's "Great Victorian Pictures" of 1978. A Mermaid" of 1901 was praised by the "Art Journal", whose critics wrote: " The whistful-sad look of this fair mermaid, seated in her rock-bound home, combing the dull-red hair ere she studs it with pearls that lie in the iridescent shell, is potent in suggestion. It tells of human longings never to be satisfied.. ...