Painting - Works of Samuel John Birch (160 works)

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Apart from a short stay at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, S. Birch was a self-taught artist. His most fruitful years (starting in 1902) were spent in the fishing village of Lamorna in the southwestern English county of Cornwall. Many of his famous paintings were created here and depict various views of Lamorna Bay. At the suggestion of his friend, the painter Stanhope Forbes, he took the artistic pseudonym Lamorna Birch. Birch was the founder and leader of the Lamorna artistic group, which consisted of some of the Newlyn School painters who settled in Lamorna and formed a new colony here. He was also involved in teaching.

Birch first exhibited his painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1892. In 1906, his first personal exhibition took place at the Society of Fine Arts. In 1924 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Arts, and in 1932 - a full member of the academy. The artist exhibited more than 200 of his paintings at the Royal Academy and also participated in exhibitions in various galleries and museums in England and Europe. The number of paintings created by Birch during his long creative career is estimated at several thousand.