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Using this demanding and difficult medium he portrayed scenes of everyday life in a fishing village, highlighting the hardships and tragedies that were commonplace during that period. Langley remained based in West Cornwall throughout his career, and died in Penzance in 1922
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He is regarded as the father figure of the later group of 'Newlyn' artists, which included Laura and Harold Knight, Alfred Munnings, Frank Gascoigne Heath and Stanley Gardiner, known as the Lamorna group.
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Birch first visited West Cornwall in the late 1880s and settled in the Lamorna Valley in 1892. He adopted the epithet 'Lamorna' in 1895 to distinguish himself from fellow artist Lionel Birch (an idea suggested by Stanhope Forbes).
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He rarely went to London and preferred to stay in his native Cornwall. He died in Newlyn in 1941.
For further information, see 'Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall', McKonkey/Risdon/Sheppard, published by Sansom & Co.
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The next exhibition at Penlee House will be a celebration of its fascinating and varied collection. It is twenty-five years since major refurbishment of the Gallery took place and in that time the collection has expanded significantly.
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Over the years Penlee House has gratefully received support to extend and make accessible its collections from @HeritageFundUK
To celebrate #HeritageTreasures we have chosen a selection of paintings that were purchased with the assistance of @HeritageFundL_S
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Christmas card drawn by Mary Curnow, a pupil at the Penzance School of Art in the 1920s to 40s who went on to design patterns for women's clothes. It shows a gentleman in a blue suit wooing a girl wearing an Edwardian looking yellow dress.
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We are so excited to share some of the brand new 3D Crysede models!
We took part in this project as we have a wonderful collection of Crysede hand block printed silk and linen garments from the 1920s/30s.
#OnThisDay in 1869 Samuel John Birch was born in Egremont, Cheshire. Apart from a brief period of study at the Atelier Colarossi, Paris in 1895, he was largely self-taught as an artist.
Birch first visited West Cornwall in the late 1880s and settled in the Lamorna Valley in 1892
While her early work in Newlyn bears the hallmarks of French realist painting. She is particularly known for painting pictures of children, including her own son, Alec.