Painting
Houses at the water's edge (Porthleven?), 1925-28
Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
228 x 304 mm
[AW 9]
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.