Wallis of Louth heads home
IN his day the work of the Lincolnshire woodcarver Thomas Wilkinson Wallis (1822-1903), who set up business in Louth in 1843, was favourably compared with that of the most famous English woodcarver of all, Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721).
Working initially in pipe clay and wire, Wallis would make a detailed model of his subjects (typical…