3-056-387 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. A. B. Walker, Mayor of Liverpool, 1873. Founder of the Walker Art Gallery. 'The munificent act of liberality with which Mr. A. B. Walker has commenced his year of office as Mayor of Liverpool was the subject of notice a few weeks ago. His offer to provide at his own cost for the erection of a Gallery of Fine Arts, the probable outlay upon which is estimated at £20,000, is worthy of the position be holds in that great commercial town, and it will be cherished in the memory of future generations, along with the instance of a similar princely gift, by Mr. William Brown, in the endowment of the Free Library there. We have much pleasure in setting before our readers the portrait of Mr. Walker, from a photograph by Messrs. Vandyke and Brown, of Lord-street, Liverpool'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.