More than 120 works including by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt depart on display at Walker art galleryThey were the punk rockers of their day – subversive, rule-breaking, or dangerous – and a new exhibition argues that it was Liverpool more than any city external London that made the pre-Raphaelites into Britain’s first modern art movement.
The central importance of Liverpool to a brotherhood of artists who,in the 19th century, changed the course of British art is set out for the first time at the Walker art gallery. More than 120 works will depart on display this week, and from the strange and obscure to names such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt.
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Source: theguardian.com