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Here Alfred Wallis depicts part of Mount’s Bay and the south west coast of the Lizard peninsula. Lizard Point is the most southerly point of Britain and is marked by a lighthouse, shown on the right of the painting. A little further long the coast is the town of Mullion and its harbour, and further on, the harbour town of Porthleven. In the top left of the painting is St Michael’s Mount. Mount’s Bay is named after St Michael’s Mount and Wallis has shown the castle at the top, and the buildings and harbour at the bottom, just as it is.
A Cornish Lug-sail fishing boat is sailing into the bay. After serving as a seaman aboard merchant sailing ships, Wallis became a fisherman with the Newlyn and Mousehole fishing fleets and worked aboard just such a vessel. He shows the lugger rolling away from the viewer in a way that so well expresses the motion of the sea and the boat sailing through the water.
As a seaman and fisherman he had sailed to and from Penzance and Newlyn many times. He clearly knew the the waters of Mount’s Bay well, and this painting has a map-like or chart-like quality, which reveals a mariner’s knowledge of these waters.
Ben Nicholson wrote that Wallis’s paintings were about ‘real experiences’, and surely this painting is just that. Wallis is recalling a memory of sailing in a lugger past Lizard Point into Mount’s Bay, heading for home.
We are very grateful to Robert Jones, author of Alfred Wallis Artist and Mariner, 2018 (Third Edition), for preparing this catalogue entry.
https://alfredwallis.robertjonesartist.com/
A Cornish Lug-sail fishing boat is sailing into the bay. After serving as a seaman aboard merchant sailing ships, Wallis became a fisherman with the Newlyn and Mousehole fishing fleets and worked aboard just such a vessel. He shows the lugger rolling away from the viewer in a way that so well expresses the motion of the sea and the boat sailing through the water.
As a seaman and fisherman he had sailed to and from Penzance and Newlyn many times. He clearly knew the the waters of Mount’s Bay well, and this painting has a map-like or chart-like quality, which reveals a mariner’s knowledge of these waters.
Ben Nicholson wrote that Wallis’s paintings were about ‘real experiences’, and surely this painting is just that. Wallis is recalling a memory of sailing in a lugger past Lizard Point into Mount’s Bay, heading for home.
We are very grateful to Robert Jones, author of Alfred Wallis Artist and Mariner, 2018 (Third Edition), for preparing this catalogue entry.
https://alfredwallis.robertjonesartist.com/