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Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Fishes and lobster pots, c. 1936
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
220 x 460 mm
[AW 2]
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.