Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Three sailing boats in a line, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on paper (mounted on card)
196 x 435 mm
[AW 3]
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.