Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Barque with man at the wheel on a stormy sea, 1936-38
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
170 x 369 mm
[AW 19]
Not on display
About the artist
Born 1855 – Died 1942
Wallis was born in Devon. He worked as a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives, Cornwall. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness.