Lady Lever Art Gallery

National Museums Liverpool

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The Lady Lever Art Gallery is part of National Museums Liverpool and contains the best of William Hesketh Lever's personal art collection. Lever started collecting art to promote Sunlight Soap. The Gallery is famous for its Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Millais, Rossetti and Burne-Jones and holds works by Leighton, Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Its outstanding collections of British sculpture, Wedgwood, Chinese porcelain and eighteenth-century furniture are among the best in the country. Lever bought pictures which would appeal to the housewives who were his customers. At first he collected art for business but as he grew richer and more confident he developed a taste for collecting. He mostly collected British art but he was also fascinated by Chinese porcelain, Roman sculpture and Greek vases which he collected to show the styles that had influenced British artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, Merseyside CH62 5EQ England

0151 4784136

Open 10am–5pm daily except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. Free entry to the Gallery and all exhibitions and events. At times there are temporary room closures to allow us to undertake essential maintenance of the building and, due to the size of the collection, not all works are always on display. If you are travelling to see a specific painting, we advise you to call the Gallery in advance of a visit.

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever