This autumnal landscapee was likely painted on Lavery's return from France in October 1884.

John Lavery RA RSA RHA, 1856-1941

Born in Belfast, Lavery was orphaned at an early age and sent to live with relatives in Ayrshire. A leading member of the Glasgow Boys, he studied at Glasgow School of Art, Heatherley's in London and the Académie Julian in Paris under Bouguereau. He was influenced by the work of Bastien-Lepage, and along with other young artists painted en plein air at Grez-sur-Loing. Lavery returned to Glasgow at the end of in 1884 and the following summer he completed his major work, The Tennis Party (Aberdeen Art Gallery), which was exhibited in 1886 at the Royal Academy in London and in 1890 in Munich, where it did much to establish the international reputation of the Glasgow Boys. He travelled to Morocco in 1891, and later established a winter retreat at Tangier. In 1896 he settled in London, where he found fame as an international portrait painter.