oil on panel, 6 1/8 ins x 8 1/8ins ( 7ins x 9ins Framed)

An interesting primitive oil of Dartmouth Castle with shipping. Painted in the 1930’s on the reverse of a  rough board, possibly a cigar box. There is some detail on the steamship which has the portholes highlighted with gold paint. Also attached are images of the painting during restoration.

Although similar to Alfred Wallis’s work , it apparently not by Wallis.

Alfred Wallis lived in St Ives . His primitive paintings of boats and views around St Ives are remarkable studies by an artistically untrained eye. Wallis sold his work to the visiting tourists, two of those and who became residents of the area were Christopher Wood and Ben Nicholson. Nicholson and Wood were great admirers of Wallis’s work and encouraged him to paint.

Wallis was buried in a simple grave in St Ives cemetary. However a year later Bernard Leech,the potter, made a head stone with decorated ceramic tiles depicting a lighthouse and in the style of Alfred Wallis.