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 ...

Content warning: this episode explores stories related to eating disorders and abortion. Body ideals (Listen from the start - 10 mins10) Taking inspiration from sculptures in Ancient Greece, we speak ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a portrait of Mary II, the pair to William III (LL 3160). The heads of both portraits could be derived from the 1690 - 1691 state portraits by Kneller at Windsor Castle. The Mary II portrait ...

This work was purchased by Lever as a portrait of King William III by Godfried Schalken dating from 1688. Comparison of the sitter’s features with those in Royal portraits by Lely and Wissing casts ...

Lever purchased this painting as being by Lely. However, it has been pointed out that while the sitter's pose is close to Lely types, such as Jane Scott, Marchioness of Tweeddale, stylistically the ...