'''Alfred Wallis''' (18 August 1855 – 29 August 1942) was a Cornish fisherman and artist.

Details of Wallis' early life are uncertain, but he settled in St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1890. In 1912, he retired from a lifetime working as a deep-sea fisherman. Following his wife's death in 1922, Wallis took up painting, to, as he later told Jim Ede,...(continue reading)