Liverpool - Walker Art Gallery

Liverpool's best known museum, the Walker Art Gallery, (1874-1876), was presented to the city by Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, who was mayor in 1873. It has a rich collection of works by Italian, Flemish and French masters from the 14th century to the present, including works by Joos van Cleve ("Virgin and Child", around 1520), Rubens ("The Holy Family", around 1632), Rembrandt (self-portrait, about 1630), by French Impressionists and Rodin. Its display of English painting and sculpture, particularly of the 18th-20th century is unrivaled by any gallery outside London. It features works by Gainsborough ("Elisabeth, Viscountess Folkestone", 1776), Hogarth ("David Garrick as Richard III", 1745) and Moore, pictures by Marianne Stokes ("Polishing Pans", 1887), Harold Gilman ("Mrs. Mounter", 1912) and Nicholas Hillard ("Queen Elizabeth I, 1574) together with a poignant farewell scene at Liverpool's Pier Head by John J. Lee entitled "Sweethearts and Wives" (1860). The John and Peter Moore Exhibition, an important display of contemporary British art is held every alternate year.