Gallery explores Liverpool's key role in pre-Raphaelite art

More than 120 works including by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt go on display at Walker art galleryThey were the punk rockers of their day – subversive, rule-breaking, dangerous – and a new exhibition argues that it was Liverpool more than any city outside London that made the pre-Raphaelites into Britain’s first modern art movement.The central importance of Liverpool to a brotherhood of artists who, in the 19th century, changed the course of B