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Sudley House,
Aigburth,
Liverpool,
England is an art gallery which contains the collection of
George Holt in its original setting. It includes work by
Thomas Gainsborough,
Joshua Reynolds,
Edwin Landseer and
J. M. W. Turner.
Built in the early 1800s for Liverpool Mayor Nicholas Robinson, Sudley became the house of Victorian ship owner and merchant George Holt in 1883. It was all bequeathed by his daughter
Emma Holt to the city in
1944. It is now run by
National Museums Liverpool. After a period of two years of work, it was reopened on 26 May 2007 following a £1 million refurbishment including many new attractions.
These recent additions to Sudley House are:
Introductory display: the Holt family – George and Elizabeth Holt and daughter Emma from 1884 to 1944. Set in the ground floor library, the display includes an introductory film, family portraits and a model of the Lamport & Holt steamer Verdi.
Two childhood rooms: how Victorian children learned and played. Exhibits include a huge Victorian dolls’ house, educational toys, fashion dolls and pots used at mealtimes by rich and poor children.
Costume room: clothes worn by three daughters of Walter Holland, George Holt’s neighbour and business partner who lived at nearby Carnatic Hall. The clothes date from the 1880s to the 1920s and were bought in Bold Street, Liverpool, and Paris.
Temporary exhibition gallery: Merchant Palaces – a photographic display, running until early 2008, looks at luxurious merchants’ mansions that graced the fashionable suburbs of Liverpool and Wirral during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
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