In 1891, Bramley married Katherine Graham, an art student, while he was working in Newlyn. She was the daughter of the Borders historian John Graham JP, of Huntingstile, Grasmere. Four years after their marriage the couple moved to Droitwich in the West Midlands, but by 1900 they had settled at Tongue Ghyll by Grasmere in the Lake District, where this was painted. By the time of this painting, 1907, Bramley had completely abandoned the systematic square brushwork of his youth and his technique was more direct.