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Lady Lever Art Gallery
museum, Bebington, England, United Kingdom
Lady Lever Art Gallery, art museum in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, part of the National Museums Liverpool. It is known for its unrivaled collection of Wedgwood ware and paintings by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers. The museum was a gift to the public from Lever Brothers cofounder William Hesketh Lever, the 1st Viscount Leverhulme, as a memorial to his wife, who died in 1913. The building was begun in 1914 and opened in December 1922. (Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on art appreciation.) The museum is located in a model village founded for Lever Brothers workers in ...(100 of 236 words)