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St.Ives with Godrevy Lighthouse Painting ID:: 443
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Alfred Wallis St.Ives with Godrevy Lighthouse c1935
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The Hold House Port Mear Square Island port Mear Beach Painting ID:: 32859
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Alfred Wallis The Hold House Port Mear Square Island port Mear Beach mk81
c.1932
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Over the fence Painting ID:: 96943
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Alfred Wallis Over the fence oil on canvas
Dimensions 33 X 24.7 cm
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Alfred Wallis
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British
1855-1942
1942). English painter, fisherman and scrap merchant. Although the exact date of Wallis birth is doubtful, he stated in letters to Jim Ede, one of his greatest patrons, that he was born on the day of the fall of Sebastopol. He claimed to have gone to sea at the age of nine and was involved in deep-sea fishing, sometimes sailing as far as Newfoundland. About 1875 he married Susan Ward, a woman 21 years his senior, and shortly afterwards gave up deep-sea fishing to become an inshore fisherman. In 1890 he moved to St Ives, Cornwall, where he set up as a marine scrap merchant. In 1912 he retired. His wife died in 1922, whereupon he took up painting to keep himself company, as he told Ede. |
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