Chronology

5 August 1865 Robert Polhill Bevan is born in Brunswick Square, Hove, near Brighton

1888 Studies art under Fred Brown at the Westminster School of Art

1889 Moves to the Académie Julian in Paris

1890 Goes to Brittany with a fellow student Eric Forbes-Robertson and stays at the Villa Julia, in Pont-Aven

1891 Visit Brittany for the second time, and after, goes to Morocco via Madrid where he studies Velasquez and Goya

1893 Returns to Brittany again, where he meets both Gauguin and Renoir, and becomes interested in lithography

1894 Returns to England and lives on an isolated farmhouse at Hawkridge, Exmoor

1897 Gets married to the Polish painter Staniàawa de Kar?owska

1900 the Bevans settle in London at 14 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage

1901, 1903 and 1904 Spends summers in Poland

1905 First solo exhibition at the Baillie Gallery

1908 Submits five works to the first Allied Artistà Association in London?s Albert Hall

1910 Exhibits for the first time at the New English Art Club

1914 Takes a new studio in Cumberland Market

1922 Elected to the New English Art Club

1923 Buys a cottage called Marlpit on Luppitt Common

8 July 1925 Dies