About the museum
The story of the Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool opened in 1877, paid for by the brewer and mayor Andrew Barclay Walker. It is part of National Museums Liverpool and free to visit.
Its collection spans medieval to modern art, with notable Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings and works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Degas and Hockney.
The collection
The Walker's collection is one of the largest outside London. It holds Simone Martini's Christ Discovered in the Temple, Rembrandt's Self-Portrait as a Young Man, Rubens, Poussin and a fine group of Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
Its modern galleries include works by Degas, Cézanne and the prize-winning paintings of the John Moores Painting Prize, such as David Hockney's Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool.
At ArtLogia you can order 44 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 38 artists led by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton.
- paintings to order
- 44
- artists
- 38
- art movements
- 11
- years covered
- 1342–1903
The building
The building, designed by Cornelius Sherlock and H. H. Vale, opened in 1877, with statues of Raphael and Michelangelo at the entrance. It is part of National Museums Liverpool.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The gallery stands on William Brown Street, Liverpool's cultural quarter, next to the World Museum and the Central Library.
