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Samuel John Lamorna Birch R.A., R.W.S., R.W.A. (1869 – 1955)
“Our
Little Stream, Lamorna”
Watercolour
Signed
and Dated 1940
Inscribed
with title to reverse
9
5/8” x 13 5/8” (246mm x 347mm)
Overall
framed size 18 5/8” x 22 1/8” (470mm x 560mm) IMAGE IMAGE
“A
view from the Artist’s Studio Window, overlooking Lamorna Cove”
Watercolour
Signed
with initials
3
1/8” x 4 ¼” (801mm x 106mm)
Overall
framed size 9 ½” x 11 ¼” (240mm x 287mm) IMAGE IMAGE
Samuel John Lamorna Birch studied at the
Academy Colarossi in Paris in 1895. He settled in Lamorna Cove in
Cornwall, initially at Boleigh Farm and later at
Flagstaff Cottage Lamorna. At the suggestion of the artist
Stanhope-Forbes “He adopted the sobriquet ‘Lamorna’ to his name to distinguish
himself from Lional Birch, an artist who was also working in the area. He
exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1893 and was elected an Associate in 1926
and a full Member in 1934. He exhibited prolifically at the Fine Art Society
where he had one-man shows. the Royal Watercolour Society, Walkers
Gallery, the Royal Academy, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and elsewhere.
In 1937 he painted in New Zealand. The Tate Gallery holds his work and
Falmouth Art Gallery gave him a retrospective in 1997 which toured to
Plymouth. An exhibition at Penlee House in
Penzance in 1995 had marked publication by Sansom & Company
of Austin Wormleighton’s “A Painter’s
Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle”. Work by Samuel John Lamorna Birch is also held
in the collections of the following Museums and Art Galleries - Leamington Spa
Art Gallery and Museum; Harris Museum and Art Gallery; Russell Cotes Art
Gallery and Museum; Lancaster City Museum; Lancaster Maritime Museum; Oldham
Gallery; Sheffield Museum; Penlee House Gallery and
Museum; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens;
National Trust Lanhydrock; Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery; Birmingham Museums Trust; Dundee Art
Galleries and Museums; Beverley Art Gallery; Royal Watercolour Society ; Derby
Museum and Art Gallery; Potteries Museum and Art Gallery; Manchester Art
Gallery; Royal Cornwall Museum; Dorset Museum; Touchstones Rochdale; Brighton
and Hove Museums; NorthLincolnshire Museum;
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum; McLean Museums and Art Gallery; The
Whitworth Museum; Museums Collection Dundee; Lang Art Gallery; Paisley Art
Institute Collection; Mansion House Cardiff; Ulster Museum; TateGallery;
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums; The Box, Plymouth; National Museum Cardiff;
Grundy Art Gallery; Bury Museum; Newport Museum and Art Galleries and the Royal
Academy of Arts
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