Painting
Three-masted ship near lighthouse, 1928-30
Alfred Wallis
Oil on watercolour board
530 x 747 mm
[AW 101]
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.