Painting
Green landscape with houses and road, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on canvas (laid on plywood)
351 x 455 mm
AW 26
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.