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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. The work included opening up original doorways to increase the circulation of visitors,
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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
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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
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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.
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developed a taste for collecting. He mostly collected British art, but he was also fascinated by Chinese art,
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and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of
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improving the lighting and restoring some of the original vaulted ceilings.
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Oil paintings in public ownership in national museums of Liverpool
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Commissioned in 1913 from architects William and Segar Owen, the
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Davis, The Public Catalogue Foundation. Coord.: Siobhan (2013).
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Robert Baddeley as Moses in Sheridan's 'The School for Scandal'
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Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
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Room 19, Classical and 18th century sculpture, Greek pottery
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Much of the Wedgwood collection was from the collection of
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founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist
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The Gallery has good representation of several trends in
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recreating typical period interiors from large houses.
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The museum is a significant surviving example of late
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Coordinates
53°21′21″N 2°59′58″W / 53.355755°N 2.9993981°W / 53.355755; -2.9993981
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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
Port Sunlight
Wirral
National Museums Liverpool
Victorian
Edwardian
Wedgwood
jasperware
Chinese ceramics
period rooms
Roman sculpture
Greek vases
Beaux-Arts
Princess Beatrice
Queen Victoria
Main Hall
Room 19, Classical and 18th century sculpture, Greek pottery
Room 21, Adam room
Victorian painting
Pre-Raphaelites
Millais
Ford Madox Brown
William Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones

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