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Victorian & Edwardian art

It was Victorian art that Lord Leverhulme first began to collect seriously. The gallery now holds an unique group of key pictures by some of the greatest Victorian painters. As well as works by both the early and later Pre-Raphaelites, there is also a varied collection of mid and late Victorian masterpieces from artists such as Lord Leighton and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Together, these works make the Lady Lever Art Gallery one of the most important centres for the appreciation of art from this period in the country. Leverhulme also continued to purchase work from contemporary artists as the 20th century progressed. This brought his collections up to date and created a wider range of styles for today's visitors to discover.

Highlights from the collection

Thumbnails of the highlights from the collection are arranged over four 'gallery selection' pages in chronological order.

Click on the thumbnail for a larger image and more information about the collection item.

Gallery Selection One

‘Four scenes from the life of St Ursula ’ Valencian School	‘Diana and Callisto’ Richard Wilson	‘Elizabeth Gunning’ Sir Joshua Reynolds
‘Venus chiding Cupid’ Sir Joshua Reynolds	‘Anne Duchess of Cumberland’ Thomas Gainsborough	‘Mrs Peter Beckford’ Sir Joshua Reynolds
‘Sarah Rodbard’ George Romney	‘Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante’ Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun	‘Haymakers’ George Stubbs
‘The Judgement of Paris’ William Etty	‘Cottage at East Bergholt’ John Constable	‘The Falls of the Clyde’ JMW Turner
‘Cymon and Iphigenia’ Sir John Everett Millais

In this section

Gallery Selection One
Gallery Selection Two
Gallery Selection Three
Gallery Selection Four
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