Painting
Two boats moving past a big house, c. 1932-37
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
380 x 373 mm
[AW 56]
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.