Liverpool Museums Loan Boxer Painting from NPG
February 3 2021
Picture: NPG
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Liverpool Museums have been loaned a portrait of the nineteenth century boxer Jem Wharton (1813-1856) from the National Portrait Gallery in London. This portrait by the artist William Daniels has been sent as part of the COMING HOME project, which sees artworks being loaned to locations that they are intimately connected with. Wharton made Liverpool is home towards the end of his unbeaten career, where he worked as a trainer and ran a tavern.
The portrait will be on display when the Museum of Liverpool reopens to the public after lockdown.
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