Alfred Wallis, Brigantine sailing past green fields, n.d.
Painting
Brigantine sailing past green fields, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
418 x 488 mm
[AW 29]
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.