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We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Kettle’s Yard will be closed on Thursday 12 March.

Kettle’s Yard will be open on Good Friday (Friday 3 April) and closed on Easter Sunday (Sunday 5 April).

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Painting

Lighthouse, four moored sailboats and rowing boats, undated

Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
97 x 241 mm
AW 119
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