Alfred Wallis

English artist whose nautical paintings reflect his Cornish seafaring roots. His works, often classified as Naive (technically and thematically simple) art, are collected at the Tate St Ives gallery in Cornwall, England.He painted many of his works on canvases made from cardboard boxes.He and French painter Henri Rousseau both became known for their works of Naive art.

He worked as a sailor and fisherman, traveling the seas between Penzance, England and Newfoundland, Canada.

He married Susan Ward, a woman twenty-one years his senior, in 1876. He and his brother were the Devonport-born children of Jane and Charles Wallis.

Painter Alfred Wallis were born on Saturday, birthstone is Peridot, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of , it is 229 days until Alfred Wallis next birthday.

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