Lady Lever

Portrait of Mrs William Hesketh Lever (c.1851-1913), later 1st Lady Lever

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R. A. (1844-1927)

1896

Oil on canvas

119 x 84.3 cm

The portrait hangs at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Cheshire. The gallery was Lord Leverhulme's gift to the village that he had founded for the employees of the Sunlight soap manufactory there. As the name of the gallery suggests, it was given in memory of his wife. — Jacqueline Banerjee.

Courtesy of the National Museums, Liverpool