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Painter, b. 1855 - d. 1942

Artist Alfred Wallis was a self-trained British painter born in 1855. Alfred Wallis' paintings focused on maritime subjects and the town of St. Ives, Cornwall. Before turning to art to help him mourn the loss of his wife in the 1920s, Wallis worked buying and selling rope, sails, iron, and other scraps to mariners who owned and worked on sailboats.

Alfred Wallis is an artist considered to be among the most influential naive painters of his era. His work may have remained in obscurity were it not discovered by renowned artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who became instant admirers of Wallis' work when they came across it.

Alfred Wallis, an artist who did not truly achieve fame till after his death, has become a celebrated modernist painter. Find original vintage oil paintings depicting landscapes, cityscapes, fantasy, or everyday subjects.