Near Lamorna Cove, Cornwall by Samuel John Lamorna Birch

Lamorna Birch was self-taught as an artist but he did spend a year in Paris at the Atelier Colarossi between 1895 and 1896.

 

He was influenced by Stanhope Forbes, who had settled at Newlyn in 1884 and who founded the Newlyn School of Art in 1899.

 

In 1902 Birch settled in Lamorna, near Penzance. At this time there was an artist named Lionel Birch living in Newlyn and at the suggestion of Stanhope Forbes, Samuel John Birch took the additional name of Lamorna in order to distinguish himself.

 

Lamorna Birch exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Manchester City Art Gallery and at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Works by the artist can be found in the Tate Gallery, London.