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Lamorna Birch

Lamorna Birch (1869 - 1955) was active/lived in England.  Lamorna Birch is known for Coastal view, landscape, seascape, marine painting.

Samuel John 'Lamorna' BIRCH (Egremont, 1869 - Lamorna, 1955)

??Born in Cheshire, Samuel Birch was early in his life introduced to the pleasures of fly-fishing, which he soon combined with a talent for drawing by making landscape sketches. While working as an industrial designer he continued to draw and paint, soon developing a modest local reputation as a landscapist.

In 1889 he visited the Cornish town of Newlyn, attracted by the work of the artists who had settled there, such as Stanhope Forbes and Frank Bramley. Apart from a brief period of study at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris in 1895, Birch was largely self-taught as an artist.

On his return from Paris he settled in Cornwall, and in 1902 moved to a studio near the coastal village of Lamorna, where he was to live and work for the rest of his career. The river valley and cove of Lamorna, not far from Penzance, was to become an area from which he derived lifelong inspiration. (Indeed, he soon added t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5344 characters.]  Artist bio

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