Painting
Houses either side of port entrance and seven boats, undated
Alfred Wallis
Oil and graphite on card
176 x 400 mm
[AW 120]
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.