From 1916 to 1919 Bevan spent his summers living and painting in a little cottage in the Bolham Valley in the heart of the Somerset hills. In 1920 he was forced to move and began working in rather more open country a few miles over the Devon border in the parish of Luppitt. He found the white cottages and the groupings of the buildings at Stoneacre Farm of particular interest (see R.A. Bevan, Robert Bevan 1865-1925 A Memoir by his Son, London, 1965, p.22)