"The Nest" Sir John Everett Millais 1887 The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Lord Leverhulme, like many of his contemporaries, liked a good bit of sentimentality and bought this painting by Millais—The Nest—knowing that reproductions of it would sell a lot of his soap. And, they did. Of course, once the ads had run their course, he kept the painting and gave it to his wife. Today, it lives in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool.
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