John Moores Painting Prize represents a special opportunity for artists to showcase their talents, so we are looking forward to welcoming the 63rd instalment into Walker Art Gallery. As with Kathryn ...

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' ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Chris Raper and Matt Smith who organise the Tachinid Recording Scheme will be delivering this one-day workshop on Tachinid Flies.Working with the recording scheme’s and museum’s specimens, you will be ...

This painting does not seem to have ever appeared at any public exhibition, therefore may have been painted as an advertisement. This theory is supported by the inscription on the soap reading 'PEARS' ...

This Assassin bug and Damsel bug workshop led by Jim Flanagan will cover the identification, biology and current distribution of 23 species. These two important groups of predatory terrestrial bugs ...

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 ...

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 ...