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Please note that Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 4pm on Friday 21 March. Last entry to the house will be at 3.15pm

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

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Painting

Fishing boat with mast stepped, undated

Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
173 x 228 mm
[AW 105]
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.

Read the full biography