Subasta Bidspirit | Sampson Hosking

Sampson Hosking - Antique, turn of the last century, oil on board - Lamorna Mills - Circa 1900 - by Sampson Hosking (see description) - good condition. Birch settled in Lamorna, Cornwall in 1892 where many of his most famous pictures date from this time and the beautiful Lamorna Cove is usually their subject matter. He was attracted to Cornwall by the Newlyn group of artists but he ended up starting a second group based around his adopted home of Lamorna. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1893. He held his first one man exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 1906. He is said to have produced more than 20,000 pictures. Sampson Hosking was a student of Birches and ran the local mill in Lamorna. The buildings remain visible today and in fact, there is now a connecting extension adjoining both. Sampson’s wife Jenny was nursing Lamorna Birch in his final days and was with him when he passed away.  Source: https://1793.co.uk/samuel-john-lamorna-birch-r-a-r-w-s-r-w-a/