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  1. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk › stories › who-was-ladyWho was Lady Lever? | National Museums Liverpool

    Who was Lady Lever? Plenty is known about Lord Leverhulme, the entrepreneur and founder of Port Sunlight village. However his wife, whom the Lady Lever Art Gallery is named after, is more of an enigma. Her biographer Gavin Hunter introduces us to the woman behind the iconic building.

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lady_Lever_Art_GalleryLady Lever Art Gallery - Wikipedia

    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.

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  4. www.britannica.com › topic › Lady-Lever-Art-GalleryLady Lever Art Gallery | History, Collections, & Facts ...

    Lady Lever Art Gallery, art museum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England. The collection exhibited at the gallery was formed by Lord Leverhulme and reflects his personal taste, which was strongly biased in favor of British works, especially of the Victorian period.

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  5. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk › lady-lever-art-galleryLady Lever Art Gallery | National Museums Liverpool

    View location of all venues. 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.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_Lever,_1stWilliam Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme - Wikipedia

    William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme FRGS FRIBA, [1] ( / ˈliːvə /, / ˈliːvəhjuːm /; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Having been educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools until he was fifteen, he started work at his father's ...

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  8. artuk.org › discover › storiesCollection in focus: Lady Lever Art Gallery | Art UK

    Mar 10, 2016 · The Lady Lever was built as a memorial to his wife by the first Lord Leverhulme, who had made a fortune in soap and was a master of the growing advertising industry, on which he spent heavily. The gallery forms the centrepiece of a planned village built on paternalistic lines for Leverhulme’s work force.

  9. artuk.org › visit › venuesLady Lever Art Gallery | Art UK

    About the venue. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is part of National Museums Liverpool and contains the best of William Hesketh Lever's personal art collection. Lever started collecting art to promote Sunlight Soap. The Gallery is famous for its Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Millais, Rossetti and Burne-Jones and holds works by Leighton, Turner ...

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