A. & R. Brown Ltd (later Archibald Brown Ltd) of 18-22 Porter Street, Liverpool, specialised in carrying out coppersmithing and brass founding for a wide range of industrial plant including sugar ...

National Museums Liverpool unveil new programme for Spring/Summer 2025 - Press Release John Moores Painting Prize returns, former prize winner opens new exhibition and young people’s work showcased, ...

The Lady Lever Art Gallery is regarded as one of the finest art galleries in Europe, housing a large collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, English furniture, Wedgwood, Chinese ceramics and more.

This painting was purchased by Lever with the intention of using it to advertise the benefits of Sunlight Soap. He was attracted to the clean, pure representation of the graceful middle-class women ...

Lever bought this painting in 1889 and used it in an advertisement. He changed the title from 'Vanity of Vanities' and added the brand name, Sunlight Soap, and the slogan 'so clean'. Frith objected to ...

Join our curators for a fascinating tour of the Treasure: History Unearthed exhibition at Museum of Liverpool. Learn more about the amazing objects on display including weapons, hoards and fabulous ...

This is one of many similar cottage scenes painted by Hayllar after he moved to Wallingford, Oxfordshire in 1875. The artist's daughter, Mary, was the model for the woman holding the baby. A ...

Lever purchased this painting as being by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It was later ascribed to Cotes and has more recently been attributed to Mortimer. The work is close in style to Mortimer's 'Portrait of a ...

This is a portrait of Mary II, the pair to William III (LL 3160). The heads of both portraits could be derived from the 1690 - 1691 state portraits by Kneller at Windsor Castle. The Mary II portrait ...

This painting was used in a soap advertisement by A and F Pears, and was presumably bought from the artist for that purpose. Lever purchased the painting from A and F Pears in 1916, and transferred it ...

This is a portrait of William III, the pair to this is Mary II (LL 3161). The heads of both portraits could be derived from the 1690 - 1691 state portraits by Kneller at Windsor Castle. The Mary II ...

A boy standing to his right, looking at the viewer. He wears a short white wig, a red coat with blue lapels, and white cuffs. His right hand holds a book upwards on a table with a blue tablecloth, and ...