Gluck’s self-invention as a young artist coincided with a move away from her family to the small Cornish village of Lamorna, home to an open-minded community of artists. There, she smoked a pipe, wore mannish clothes and loved the landscapes, in which there was “very little land and great expanses of sky.” She stayed in a hut on Bodmin Moor with the painter Ella Naper, who is likely the subject of this painting. (https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/02/01/t-magazine/art/a-groundbreaking-20th-century-artist-rediscovered/s/01tmag-gluck-slide-DS97.html)