| Description | Two oil paintings, reproductions of book jacket designs, for a number of publishers, including Oxford University Press, cartoons, and proofs and cuttings of book illustrations, and ninety black and white photographs of his oil paintings |
| AdminHistory | David Birch (William Henry David Birch) (1895-1968) was the Principal of the Epsom School of Art and remained in post until 1961. David Birch was born in Epsom, and was also a student of the first Principal William Henry Osmond (1865 - 1943) in the years before The Great War. Birch was a renowned landscape painter and member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters following in the Constable tradition.
Material of David Birch's will be of interest to Fine Art and Illustration
This collection is located in Epsom
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