Next tours:

September: Thu 12 Sep 2019
Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.
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November: Sun 10 Nov 2019
Meet: Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 1.30pm.
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Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now sell for millions.

He called himself a “simple man”, but he was the strangest of fellows. He never left the British Isles, enjoyed no sexual relations, and made his will over to a much younger woman, whom he befriended simply because she shared his surname.

Lowry’s day job was not as an artist but a rent collector in the slum areas of the city, and as we explore the man behind the paintings we take you through the haunts he visited and depicted.