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, ...

Podcast: Episode 8 - My body All bodies are worthy of love and respect. In episode eight of the National Museums Liverpool Podcast we explore stories about our bodies, each with their own unique link ...

Walker Art Gallery has announced an extension to Johnny Vegas and Emma Rodgers' display 'Metamorphosis' until 29 June 2025. A unique collaboration between two renowned ceramicists, 'Metamorphosis' ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

This painting is derived from Boucher's 'L'Amour Désarmé' of 1751 but with considerable variations. One difference is that Cupid still holds his arrow in this painting, while in Boucher's version ...

Part of a thick round ivory spindle whorl. It has a hole in the middle and a convex body. The piece has engraved decoration of three incised bands around the edge and the central hole. In between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Duke of Wellington led the allied armies (including Britain, Austria and Russia) to victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. After his defeat, Napoleon went into exile on the island of St Helena ...