Born 1855 – Died 1942

Wallis was born in Devon. He was a fisherman and later a scrap-metal merchant in St. Ives. After the death of his wife in 1922, he turned to painting as a way of fending off loneliness. He was admired by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who came across his work when visiting St. Ives in 1928 and included it in the Seven & Five Society’s exhibition of 1929. He died in Madron Poorhouse.

Works by this artist in the permanent collection

• Barque with man at the wheel on a stormy sea (reserve collection)
• Boat with fishermen letting out nets – PZ11, the Flying Scud (reserve collection)
• Boat with yellow mast in full sail (reserve collection)
• Boats before a great bridge (Royal Albert Bridge?) (displayed)
• Boats under Saltash Bridge (Royal Albert Bridge) (displayed)
• Bridge and houses (reserve collection)
• Brigantine sailing past green fields (reserve collection)
• Brigantine with figurehead (displayed)
• Coaster by shore with house (reserve collection)
• Cottages in a wood – St. Ives (displayed)
• Crucifixion, or Allegory with three figures and two dogs (reserve collection)
• Dark Trees (reserve collection)
• Death ship (reserve collection)
• Fishes and lobster pots (displayed)
• Fishing boat in harbour, with red sail mast stepped (displayed)
• Fishing boat with mast stepped (reserve collection)
• Five fishing boats anchored by pier and lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Five ships – Mount’s Bay (displayed)
• Five ships in port with lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Five ships sailing towards harbour (reserve collection)
• Flowering trees (displayed)
• Four sailing boats leaving pier with lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Four-masted sailing ship and lighthouse (displayed)
• French lugsail fishing boat (displayed)
• Gateway (reserve collection)
• Green and black steamer, lighthouse and seagulls (reserve collection)
• Green landscape with houses and road (reserve collection)
• Grey steam boat (displayed)
• Grey steamboat, sailing ship and three fish with teeth (reserve collection)
• Grey three-master (reserve collection)
• Harbour with two lighthouses and motor vessel – St. Ives Bay (reserve collection)
• House between hills (reserve collection)
• House with trees (reserve collection)
• Houses and big trees (reserve collection)
• Houses at the water’s edge (Porthleven?) (displayed)
• Houses either side of port entrance and seven boats (reserve collection)
• Knill’s monument (reserve collection)
• Land, fish and motor vessel (displayed)
• Landscape with field, chimneys and road between cottages (Consols Mine) (reserve collection)
• Landscape with two large trees and houses (displayed)
• Large and small steamboats (reserve collection)
• Lighthouse and two sailing ships (displayed)
• Lighthouse, four moored sailboats and rowingboats (reserve collection)
• Low water (reserve collection)
• Motor vessel mounting a wave (reserve collection)
• Motor vessel near land (reserve collection)
• Motor vessel with airship and shark (reserve collection)
• Motor vessel with four men (reserve collection)
• Mount’s bay (reserve collection)
• Mount’s Bay with four lighthouses (displayed)
• Nine ships in harbour (reserve collection)
• Old Arch Digey, St. Ives (displayed)
• Orange ship with five fish (reserve collection)
• P&O ship (displayed)
• Penzance harbour (displayed)
• Portland, Dorset (?) (displayed)
• PZ sailing boats by a jetty (reserve collection)
• Ravine with estuary (Bristol Channel and suspension bridge?) (reserve collection)
• Sailing boat with French-grey sails (reserve collection)
• Sailing ship against a sandy beach (reserve collection)
• Sailing ship and orchard (displayed)
• Sailing ship and porpoises (reserve collection)
• Sailing ships and two steamers – Newlyn harbour (displayed)
• Saltash (or Devonport?) (displayed)
• Schooner in full sail near a lighthouse (displayed)
• Schooner on a blue sea (reserve collection)
• Seascape – ships sailing past the Longships (displayed)
• Seven boats entering harbour (displayed)
• Ship with seven men, net and gull (reserve collection)
• Ship, people and animals (displayed)
• Ships in harbour (reserve collection)
• Shipwreck 1 – The Wreck of the Alba (reserve collection)
• Shipwreck 2 – The Wreck of the Alba (reserve collection)
• Shoreline (reserve collection)
• Small black steamer with lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Small boat in a rough sea (displayed)
• Steamboat with two sailors, lighthouse and rocks (reserve collection)
• Street of houses and trees (displayed)
• The Old Victry – HMS Victory (reserve collection)
• Three grey-sailed ships (reserve collection)
• Three sailing boats in a line (displayed)
• Three-masted barque with three small ships (displayed)
• Three-masted ship (reserve collection)
• Three-masted ship near lighthouse (displayed)
• Three-master against a white sky (reserve collection)
• Three-master in full sail near a lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Three-master with four sailors, and four dolphins (reserve collection)
• Trees and cottages (displayed)
• Two boats (displayed)
• Two boats moving past a big house (displayed)
• Two boats with yellow sails and lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Two fishermen in their boat with one mast stepped (reserve collection)
• Two sailing ships (reserve collection)
• Two sailing ships with a lighthouse (reserve collection)
• Two ships (reserve collection)
• Two ships and steamer sailing past a port – Falmouth and St. Anthony lighthouse (displayed)
• Two ships with brown-green sails in rising sea (reserve collection)
• Two-funnel steamboat amongst three sailing boats (reserve collection)
• Two-master with green hull-line alongside quay (reserve collection)
• White house and cottages – the Old House, Porthmeor Square (displayed)
• White houses – Hales Down, near St. Ives (displayed)