Alfred Wallis: Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary
Alfred Wallis: Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary
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The first in-depth biography of self-taught artist Alfred Wallis, Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary chronicles his Cornish ancestry, his impoverished childhood in Devon, his work as a fisherman and merchant mariner, and marriage and family life at Penzance and St Ives, where he worked as a marine stores dealer. It examines his success as an artist after he took up painting as a hobby at the age of 70, his interactions with the ‘real artists’...
Alfred Wallis: Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary
The first in-depth biography of self-taught artist Alfred Wallis, Child Pauper to Artistic Luminary chronicles his Cornish ancestry, his impoverished childhood in Devon, his work as a fisherman and merchant mariner, and marriage and family life at Penzance and St Ives, where he worked as a marine stores dealer. It examines his success as an artist after he took up painting as a hobby at the age of 70, his interactions with the ‘real artists’ who bought his work, through to an unfortunate end in the workhouse.
The book contains much new information found through the author's painstaking research, and is richly illustrated with 267 images in colour and black and white, including 104 colour reproductions of Alfred Wallis’s paintings, 10 photographs of Alfred Wallis and 27 photographs of his family.
Hardcover
550 pages
Dimensions: 240 x 170mm
ISBN: 9781838414207