William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme a painting by Edmund Leighton. Lever's rival in the soap industry, A & F Pears, had taken the lead in using art for marketing by buying paintings such as "Bubbles" by John Everett Millais to promote its products. Lever's response was to acquire similarly illustrative works, and he later bought 'The New Frock' by William Powell Frith to promote the Sunlight soap brand. In 1922 he founded the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight in Cheshire which he dedicated to his late wife Elizabeth. William Lever was born on 19 September 1851 at 16 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England.
The Monarch of the Glen (painting) of Landseer's stag image in their logo since 1968. The painting has also been used on the label of tins of Baxter's Royal Game soup in the UK. "The Monarch of the Glen" was prominently featured in an episode of "The Goodies". The BBC television series "Monarch of the Glen" (2000-2005) takes its title from the painting, as well as the title of Compton Mackenzie's 1941 novel of the same name. A novella by Neil Gaiman is named after "The Monarch of the Glen". The Monarch of the Glen (painting) The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of