Photo: © Kettle's Yard
Painting
Schooner in full sail near a lighthouse, 1925-28
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card (brown)
245 x 510 mm
[AW 14]
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.