Newlyn School of Art and The Lamorna Colony
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Lamorna became popular with artists of the Newlyn School. It is particularly associated with the artist S. J. "Lamorna" Birch who lived there. The colony included Birch, Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight. This period is dramatised in the novel Summer in February by Jonathan Smith. Lamorna was also the home of the jeweller Ella Naper and her husband, the painter Charles, who built Trewoofe house there.
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