off the coast of argyll stands a lighthouse which gave its name to a house in bournemouth where a famous author lived for a few years in the 1880's. he was a member of the family firm who had built the lighthouse in question,so what was his name
Sargent painted the couple at Skerryvore, the home in Bournemouth inherited from Stevenson�s father and named after a lighthouse the family firm built in Argyll, Scotland. He subsequently gave the work to the author, signing it to RL Stevenson, from "his friend", John S Sargent, and dated 1885.