The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste. It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme's personal taste and collecting interests. The collection is strong in British 19th-century painting and sculpture, spilling over to include late 18th-century and early 20th works. There are important collections of English furniture, Wedgwood, especially jasperware, and Chinese ceramics, and smaller groups of other types of objects, such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture. The majority of objects were part of the original donation, but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate. The museum displays mostly mixed paintings, sculpture and furniture together, and there are five period rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
Lever began collecting art in the late 19th century, largely to use in advertising for the popular Sunlight Soap brand (manufactured a few minutes' walk from the gallery) that helped to create his fortune. As he grew richer his collections began to expand, his confidence grew as well and he developed a taste for collecting. He mostly collected British art, but he was also fascinated by Chinese art,[3]Roman sculpture and Greek vases, which he had chosen to collect to show styles that had influenced British artists in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
He endowed the gallery to showcase his collection. It is named in memory of his wife Elizabeth Hulme (Lady Lever) who had died in 1913.[4]
The buildingedit
Commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux-Arts style.[5] The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
In 2015 a touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere. The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a £2.8 million restoration project in 2016.[6] The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors, improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings.[7]
Gallery Rooms
Main Hall
Room 19, Classical and 18th century sculpture, Greek pottery
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^"History of the Lady Lever Art Gallery". Liverpool Museums.
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^. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922 The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool 2 Lady Lever Art GalleryLady Lever Art Gallery BuildingEstablished1922 1922 LocationPort Sunlight Merseyside England United KingdomCoordinates53 21 21 N 2 59 58 W 53 355755 N 2 9993981 W 53 355755 2 9993981Visitors210 790 2019 1 Websitewww liverpoolmuseums org uk The museum is a significant surviving example of late Victorian and Edwardian taste It houses major collections of fine and decorative art that are an expression of Lord Leverhulme s personal taste and collecting interests The collection is strong in British 19th century painting and sculpture spilling over to include late 18th century and early 20th works There are important collections of English furniture Wedgwood especially jasperware and Chinese ceramics and smaller groups of other types of objects such as Ancient Greek vases and Roman sculpture The majority of objects were part of the original donation but the collection has continued to expand at a modest rate The museum displays mostly mixed paintings sculpture and furniture together and there are five period rooms recreating typical period interiors from large houses Contents 1 History 2 The building 3 Collection 4 Gallery of works of art in the collection 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory editLever began collecting art in the late 19th century largely to use in advertising for the popular Sunlight Soap brand manufactured a few minutes walk from the gallery that helped to create his fortune As he grew richer his collections began to expand his confidence grew as well and he developed a taste for collecting He mostly collected British art but he was also fascinated by Chinese art 3 Roman sculpture and Greek vases which he had chosen to collect to show styles that had influenced British artists in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries He endowed the gallery to showcase his collection It is named in memory of his wife Elizabeth Hulme Lady Lever who had died in 1913 4 The building editCommissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen the Lady Lever Art Gallery was built in the Beaux Arts style 5 The building was opened in 1922 by Princess Beatrice the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria In 2015 a touring exhibition visited museums in Japan and elsewhere The redeveloped South End galleries were restored to their original architecture style as part of a 2 8 million restoration project in 2016 6 The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings 7 Gallery Rooms nbsp Main Hall nbsp Room 19 Classical and 18th century sculpture Greek pottery nbsp Room 21 Adam roomCollection editThe Gallery has good representation of several trends in Victorian painting including the Pre Raphaelites both during the period of the Brotherhood and in their subsequent careers Concern with social conditions classical revivalism and later historical painting are all represented There are important works by Millais 8 Ford Madox Brown William Holman Hunt Dante Gabriel Rossetti Edward Burne Jones Lord Leighton and many others The museum has what appears to be the largest display in any museum of paintings by William Etty Earlier works include those by Turner Constable Gainsborough and Reynolds Much of the Wedgwood collection was from the collection of Dudley Marjoribanks 1st Baron Tweedmouth bought in 1905 This in turn was partly formed from the collection of Charles Darwin Josiah Wedgwood s grandson It is probably the best collection of jasperware in the world 9 The collection includes several examples of New Sculpture including works by Edward Onslow Ford John Gibson William Goscombe John and F W Pomeroy Gallery of works of art in the collection edit nbsp Antinous circa 130 138 restored circa 1795 as Ganymede nbsp Emperor Hadrian 18th century nbsp Johan Zoffany Robert Baddeley as Moses in Sheridan s The School for Scandal 1781 nbsp Joshua Reynolds Mrs Peter Beckford 1782 nbsp George Stubbs Selfportrait on Horseback 1783 nbsp John Flaxman Cephalus and Aurora 1789 nbsp Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun Emma Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante circa 1790 nbsp William Etty The Triumph of Cleopatra 1821 nbsp William Etty The Judgement of Paris 1826 nbsp after Lorenzo Bartolini Venus 1830 nbsp John Constable Cottage at East Bergholt 1833 nbsp J M W Turner The Falls of the Clyde circa 1845 nbsp Franz Xaver Winterhalter Prince Albert 1846 nbsp William Holman Hunt The Scapegoat 1854 nbsp John Everett Millais A Dream of the Past Sir Isumbras at the Ford 1857 nbsp John Everett Millais Spring Apple Blossoms 1858 1859 nbsp John Everett Millais The Black Brunswicker 1860 nbsp Arthur Hughes A Music Party 1864 nbsp Frederick Walker The Bathers 1866 1867 nbsp Edward Burne Jones The Beguiling of Merlin 1874 nbsp Ford Madox Brown Cromwell on his Farm 1874 nbsp Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel 1875 nbsp Hubert von Herkomer The Last Muster 1875 nbsp Frederic Leighton Daphnephoria 1876 nbsp Lawrence Alma Tadema Tepidarium 1881 nbsp John Everett Millais Bubbles 1886 nbsp William Holman Hunt May Morning on Magdalen Tower 1890 nbsp Frederic Leighton The Garden of Hesperides circa 1891 nbsp John Henry Frederick Bacon The Wedding Morning 1892 nbsp Edward Onslow Ford Echo 1895 nbsp Desire Maurice Ferrary fr Leda and the Swan 1898 nbsp Desire Maurice Ferrary Salambo 1899 nbsp Edward Onslow Ford The Snowdrift 1901 nbsp John Singer Sargent On his Holidays Norway 1901 nbsp Clovis Delacour fr Andromeda circa 1901 nbsp F W Pomeroy The Wood Nymph 1908 nbsp John William Waterhouse The Decameron 1916 nbsp John William Waterhouse The Enchanted Garden 1916 1917See also editListed buildings in Port Sunlight The Stuckists Punk Victorian Walker Art GalleryReferences edit ALVA Association of Leading Visitor Attractions www alva org uk Retrieved 9 November 2020 Homepage National Museums Liverpool Chinese collection online catalogue A record of the collection formed by the 1st Viscount Leverhulme 1851 1925 History of the Lady Lever Art Gallery Liverpool Museums Davis The Public Catalogue Foundation Coord Siobhan 2013 Oil paintings in public ownership in national museums of Liverpool S l The Public Catalogue Foundation p 5 ISBN 978 1 909475 08 3 Exciting plans for the Lady Lever Art Gallery from National Museums Liverpool South End galleries Lady Lever Art Gallery Liverpool museums www liverpoolmuseums org uk Archived from the original on 16 April 2018 Retrieved 15 April 2018 Millais John Everett Apple Blossoms Lady Lever Art Gallery Collections Wedgwood Archived 26 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine www liverpoolmuseums org ukExternal links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lady Lever Art Gallery Lady Lever Art Gallery official web site What s On at the Lady Lever Art Gallery A personal view with photographs Historic England Details from listed building database 1075469 National Heritage List for England Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lady Lever Art Gallery amp oldid 1214232325, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
