Samuel John Lamorna Birch British, 1869-1955
Fowling Pool, 1895
oil on panel
26.5 x 35.5 cm
10 3/8 x 14 in
10 3/8 x 14 in
signed and dated
The Fowling Pool is a scenic spot in the Trevider Valley near Lamorna, Cornwall. It was a favourite picnic location for Birch and his family, situated along the Milk Walk,...
The Fowling Pool is a scenic spot in the Trevider Valley near Lamorna, Cornwall. It was a favourite picnic location for Birch and his family, situated along the Milk Walk, an old farmer's route to the Lamorna milk factory (now Lamorna Pottery). The Bowerman Trust have a slightly later and much larger version of the same subject and Penlee House hold a 1904 painting from the area.
Provenance
Austin Wormleighton (1937-2019)Exhibitions
Plymouth City Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Lamorna Birch RA RWS: A Retrospective (November 1987-February 1988; and August-September 1997)Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; Salford Quays, The Lowry; Birkenhead, Williamson Art Gallery, Shades of British Impressionism, Lamorna Birch and his Circle, A Memorial Exhibition, October 2024-February 2025
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Entranced by a Special Place (June-September 2018)
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Lamorna Birch: A Painter Laureate (October 2025-January 2026)
Literature
Austin Wormleighton, A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch and his Circle (Whitefox Publishing, 2025), illustrated p.37
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