Painting
Two ships and steamer sailing past a port - Falmouth and St. Anthony lighthouse, c. 1931
Alfred Wallis
Oil on card
263 x 409 mm
[AW 98]
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.