Public Art Collections in North-west England

There are over 30 public art galleries in north-west England with substantial collections, as well as three country houses in public ownership with paintings of major importance. The collections in Liverpool at the Walker Art Gallery and Manchester at the City Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery are well known, while Lord Leverhulme's splendid British paintings and sculpture preserved at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight now have an international reputation. This book describes these galleries in detail, but concentrate on the less famous public collections, many of which contain little known masterpieces.