{"id":125104,"date":"2025-09-09T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125104\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:20:07","slug":"unearthed-painting-by-cornish-artist-alfred-wallis-sells-for-20k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125104\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthed painting by Cornish artist Alfred Wallis sells for \u00a320k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A newly-discovered painting by an acclaimed Cornish artist has sold for \u00a320,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The painting by self-taught St Ives artist Alfred Wallis is thought to show the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Devon-born artist spent most of his life as a fisherman and his biographer, Matilda Webb, thinks he saw the bridge in 1894 &#8211; four years after it opened &#8211; when the St Ives fishing fleet sailed up and around the British coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William Summerfield, from London auction house Roseberys, said: &#8220;Wallis rarely painted Scottish scenes and this long-lost work, unseen for almost a century, is a remarkable example of his virtuosic sense of colour and mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly-discovered painting by an acclaimed Cornish artist has sold for \u00a320,000. The painting by self-taught St Ives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-125104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}