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Painting
Sailing ships and two steamers - Newlyn harbour, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on board
255 x 489 mm
[AW 62]
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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