Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Four-masted sailing ship and lighthouse, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on wood
200 x 688 mm
AW 4
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.