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Painting
Motor vessel near land, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card (orange)
185 x 398 mm
[AW 85]
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.
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