Description
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside of London. It is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North".
In 1873 Andrew Barclay Walker, a Liverpool brewer and alderman offered to present a gallery to Liverpool to commemorate his term as mayor and donated £20,000 towards it. In 1874 the constructions began and on 6 September 1877 The 15th Earl of Derby opened the Walker Art Gallery, that received 324,117 visitors in four months.
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