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Painting

Trees and cottages, c. 1935-37

Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
475 x 573 mm
[AW 23]
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.

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