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 ...

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 ...