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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	HOME ARTISTS PAINTINGS PRINTS SCULPTURE OBJETS D'ART EXHIBITIONS CATALOGUES ART FAIRS SPECIAL OFFERS HOW TO BUY ABOUT US THE 3 GALLERIES THE TEAM HOW TO FIND US OPENING HOURS CONTACT US VISIT BROADWAY LINKS RESOURCES	Samuel John Birch was born in Egremont, Lancashire, in 1869 and worked in the mills in Manchester and Lancaster, painting in his spare time. Although he studied briefly in Paris, at the Atelier Colarossi (1906), he was largely self-taught. He first visited Cornwall in the late 1880s where he worked with Stanhope Forbes at Newlyn before settling in the beautiful Lamorna Valley. In 1895 he decided to adopt the name ‘Lamorna’ in order to distinguish himself from the artist Lionel Birch (an idea suggested by Stanhope Forbes). Birch is generally regarded as the father figure of the later group of Newlyn artists, which included Laura and Harold Knight (who he met in 1907), Alfred Munnings, Frank Gascoigne Heath, Stanley Gardiner and Charles and Ella Naper. Together they formed a second artists’ colony in the Lamorna Vally, often referred to as the Lamorna Group. In his long and distinguished career, Birch exhibited over 200 works at the Royal Academy, as well as exhibiting throughout the country and abroad. He was elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1914, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1924 and was finally made a full Royal Academician in 1934. His painting of “St Ives, Cornwall” was purchased by the Chantry Bequest in 1938. Birch died at Lamorna in 1955. John Noott Galleries at Dickens House Tel: 01386 858969 /854868 Artist : Samuel John Lamorna Birch RA Title : The river Size : 20.00" x 25.00" Medium : Oil Price :   Please Call 01386 854868 Please click below to enquire about 'The river' or other work by this artist