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Lady Lever Art Gallery
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Port Sunlight
Merseyside
CH62 5EQ
Tel: +44 0151 478 4136
Set in the picturesque Port Sunlight village the Lady Lever Art Gallery houses one of the most beautiful collections of fine and decorative art in the UK and includes many world famous Pre Raphaelite artworks, Chinese ceramics and Wedgwood jasperware.
The collections represent the personal taste of the first Lord Leverhulme who began buying art in the late 1880s to use as advertising for the 'Sunlight Soap' brand that he produced. From this modest beginning Leverhulme quickly grew into a discerning collector.
In his lifetime Lever collected over 20,000 works of art. Many of these are on display in the gallery today. This massive and diverse collection includes paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, textiles and ethnographic objects.
Lever mostly collected British art. But he was also fascinated by Chinese porcelain, Roman sculpture and Greek vases and Eighteenth century furniture. He collected them to show the styles that had most influenced British artists and designers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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