Talk:Lady Lever Art Gallery

Comment by User:Lee M

11 April 2014 revision by 95.129.2.187 is massively POV and possible copyvio - at any rate, it reads like a straight PR job despite its incorrect link to the Museum website. Lee M (talk) 19:14, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Incorporate gallery in § Collection?

I'm thinking that displaying the painting links of § Collection in a gallery format with associated images might look nice and be visually informative while still serving the present function of offering forth the existing article links to readers.

Here's an example of how such might look:

proposed gallery example

Collection The Gallery has good representation of several trends in Victorian painting, including the Pre-Raphaelites, both during the period of the Brotherhood and in their subsequent careers. Concern with social conditions, classical revivalism and later historical painting are all represented. There are important works by Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Lord Leighton, and many others. The museum has what appears to be the largest display in any museum of paintings by William Etty. Earlier works include those by Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Much of the Wedgwood collection was from the collection of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, bought in 1905. This in turn was partly formed from the collection of Charles Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood's grandson. It is probably the best collection of jasperware in the world. The collection includes: A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais Bubbles by John Everett Millais The Black Brunswicker by John Everett Millais Cromwell on his Farm by Ford Madox Brown The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Burne-Jones The collection also includes several examples of New Sculpture, including works by: Edward Onslow Ford John Gibson William Goscombe John F. W. Pomeroy References

So, whatta' ya' think? (i.e. feedback and suggestions welcome) --–A Fellow Editor– 01:54, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Fine - <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4"> is much better, imo. Include some stuff that isn't paintings ideally. Johnbod (talk) 02:03, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the <gallery> parameter suggestion. As to "stuff that isn't paintings" ... If someone (hint, hint) were to look into finding examples of what the collection has from the listed linked sculptors that might make a good start. Other stuff might be added incrementally at later points as well, of course.

option #2

Collection The Gallery has good representation of several trends in Victorian painting, including the Pre-Raphaelites, both during the period of the Brotherhood and in their subsequent careers. Concern with social conditions, classical revivalism and later historical painting are all represented. There are important works by Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Lord Leighton, and many others. The museum has what appears to be the largest display in any museum of paintings by William Etty. Earlier works include those by Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Much of the Wedgwood collection was from the collection of Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth, bought in 1905. This in turn was partly formed from the collection of Charles Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood's grandson. It is probably the best collection of jasperware in the world. The collection includes: A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais Bubbles by John Everett Millais The Black Brunswicker by John Everett Millais Cromwell on his Farm by Ford Madox Brown The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Burne-Jones The collection also includes several examples of New Sculpture, including works by: Edward Onslow Ford John Gibson William Goscombe John F. W. Pomeroy References

Meh, I'm feeling inclined to hold off moving it into mainspace until we've had a chance to look into both a more representative sampling of the collection and also into a more consistent level of image quality — I just lifted the current selection from the related linked infoboxes ... Some seem kinda' like old low-res versions that can likely either be updated or replaced with better examples.

--–A Fellow Editor– 02:50, 2 December 2017 (UTC)