“Mr. Laurenson paints with deliberate joy, and seems to delight in any difficulties of light, though it be but London light, and the scene be a wintry one at Battersea or Hammersmith, with snow upon the barges and the river-side buildings; or sunlight resting upon the Serpentine, or dancing across the Thames.” The Studio 53 (1910): 220. (http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/painting/laurenson/paintings/index.html)