Painting
Shipwreck 1 - The Wreck of the Alba, 1938-40
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card (orange)
265 x 335 mm
[AW 27]
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.
