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Despite this attention, Wallis sold few paintings and continued to live in poverty until he died in the Madron workhouse near Penzance. He is buried in Barnoon cemetery, overlooking St Ives Porthmeor beach and the Tate St Ives gallery.
Alfred Wallace died in 1942 aged 86. Determined that he wouldn't be forgotten, Ben Nicholson and friends arranged for the potter Bernard Leach to design Alfred's grave. The gravestone reads "artist and mariner" and shows a tiny sailor at the foot of a towering lighthouse.
Wallis painted from memory and imagination, usually working with ship's paint on scraps of cardboard or wood. Although he rapidly became the best known of British naive artists, he died in a workhouse.
Alfred Wallis (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a British fisherman and artist known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes painted in a naïve style. Having no artistic training, he began painting at the age of 70, using household paint on scraps of cardboard.
After a long and often tormented life, Wallis died in Madron in 1942. Stokes arranged for a coffin and a Salvation Army funeral for Wallis, saving him a pauper's burial - the fate that befell most poorhouse residents. In an act of tribute, the modernist poet W.S. Graham wrote an epitaph for the artist entitled "The Voyages of Alfred Wallis."
- British
- August 18, 1855
- Devon, England
- August 29, 1942
He was admired by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who came across his work when visiting St. Ives in 1928 and included it in the Seven & Five Society’s exhibition of 1929. He died in Madron Poorhouse. Photo: © Kettle's Yard.
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Nov 4, 2019 · It was not until Susan's death in 1922 that Wallis took up painting, later explaining he did this 'for company' now that he was living alone. While painting may seem an unusual hobby for a man like Wallis, this is not as surprising as it initially appears.
