Wallis cache emerges via neighbour
WHEN Barnes Thomas, director of Barnes Thomas County Auctioneers of Penzance, was called to the home of a retired fisherman in the town to value a painting, he found a cache of works by the original St Ives naive painter, Alfred Wallis (1855-1942).
The chest was inherited by the owner from his aunt, who was Wallis' neighbour, and it contained nume…