Samuel John Lamorna Birch - Summer Evening, The Still Pool, Deveron, near Rothiemay

Price Realized
£11,875

signed 'S. J. Lamorna Birch' (lower left) and inscribed 'The Still Pool Deveron/Summer Evening' (on the reverse)
oil on board
16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.)

Lamorna Birch was a keen angler; he frequently dammed the streams of the Lamorna Valley for fishing, and for holidays frequented the Spey in Inverness, or the Deveron, in Aberdeenshire, depicted here near Rothiemay.

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