 His landscapes of the Heidelberg period, "Beach Scene, Black Rock" and "Fitzroy Gardens" (both c. 1889) show him combining the new objectivity which superseded romantic landscape with a lyricism worthy of the French Impressionists.However, his greatest achievements are a few penetrating portraits, that of Robert Louis Stevenson already mentioned, his "Portrait of Dr. D.M.Stuart" (1894), "Portrait of W.M.