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Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

British, 1869-1955

Samuel John Lamorna Birch was the leading figure of the second flowering of the Newlyn School. He was so smitten with the Lamorna Valley and Cove that he took its name as his own, being known as Lamorna Birch. Samuel John Birch was born in Egremont, Cheshire, England. Apart from a brief period of study, at the Académie Colarossi, Paris in 1895, he was largely self-taught as an artist. Birch first visited West Cornwall in the late 1880s and settled in the Lamorna Valley in 1892. He adopted the epithet ‘Lamorna’ in 1895 to distinguish himself from fellow artist Lionel Birch (an idea suggested by Stanhope Forbes). He is regarded as the father figure of the later group of “Newlyn” artists, which included Laura and Harold Knight, Alfred Munnings, Frank Gascoigne Heath and Stanley Gardiner, known as “the Lamorna Group”. Birch was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1924 and was made a full Royal Academician (RA) eight years later. In his long and distinguished career, he exhibited over 200 works at the Royal Academy, as well as exhibiting throughout the country and abroad.

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Artist: Samuel John Lamorna Birch
River Lune nr Lancaster - British 19thC Impressionist art landscape oil painting
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in London, GB
A delightful oil painting on canvas by Newlyn listed artist Samuel Lamorna Birch. Painted circa 1895 it depicts The River Lune and a fisherman near Lancaster and it is a stunning exa...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Oil

Nr Lamorna Cove
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Near Lamorna Cove, Cornwall by Samuel John Lamorna Birch Oil on panel Panel size: 7 x 10 inches Signed (lower left) Additional Info Lamorna Birch was self-taught as an artist but he...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Oil

The Old Mill, Lamorna
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in Broadway, GB
DIMENSIONS: 38.10 x 55.88 cms / 15 x 22 ins SIGNATURE: Signed (lower left) MEDIUM: Oil on board Samuel John Birch was a leading figure in the second generation of the Newlyn School. He began his love affair with West Cornwall in the late 1880s, settling in Lamorna Valley in 1892. So taken with the area, in 1895 he adopted the name ‘Lamorna’ to distinguish himself from fellow artist Lionel Birch, an idea that was suggested to him by Stanhope Forbes. Lamorna provided Birch with a never ending range of landscape subjects set against the bright light of this relaxed atmospheric fishing village. The Old Mill...
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Early 19th Century Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Oil

View Of Piha Beach, New Zealand, dated 1936
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in Blackwater, GB
View Of Piha Beach, New Zealand, dated 1936 by Samuel John Lamorna Birch RA, RWS (1869-1955) Large 1936 View of Piha Beach, New Zealand, oil on canvas by Samuel John Lamorna Birch. Excellent quality and condition rare example of the artists work during his visit to Australia & New Zealand 1936-1937. Unframed, signed and inscribed. Signed, inscribed and dated S. J. Lamorna Birch - Study. Piha / 1936 (lower right) and inscribed MORNING FILLS THE BOWL (to reverse) Measurements: 24" x 20" unframed approx Property of Bill Thomson, Albany Gallery Samuel John Lamorna Birch, RA, RWS, RWA British, 1869-1955 Samuel John Lamorna Birch was born in Egremont, Cheshire, on 7 June 1869. As a boy he moved to Manchester and later to Halton, near Lancaster, working in an office or mill and painting at dawn...
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Early 20th Century Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Canvas, Oil

The Shimmering Spey
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 27 x 40 inches Framed size: 33.75 x 46.75 inches Signed lower right
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The Shady Pool
By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas Canvas size: 22 x 33 inches Framed size: 30 x 38 inches Signed and dated 1955 lower left Provenance: Private collection, London
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20th Century Impressionist Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Canvas, Oil

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By Samuel John Lamorna Birch
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster issued by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway LMS and London North Eastern Railway LNER - By Ben and Glen to the Western Highlands It's quicker by...
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1930s Samuel John Lamorna Birch Art

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Paper

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