This is a listed building.
It was designed at a cost of £9.000 by William Henry Thorp of Albion Street, Leeds, and opened by Archibald Witham Scarr (1827–1904), Mayor of Leeds, and Hubert von Herkomer on Wednesday 3 October 1888.
Its ground floor gallery was called the Queen's Room (re-named as of 2019 the Ziff Gallery): 
"A beautiful rectangular apartment with arches crossing its corners, which give the roof an octagonal character, with coved ceiling and lantern, and with clerestory lights through arcades, with classic moulded pilasters; it has a fine frieze designed by Mr Thorp, and carried out by Mr J.W. Appleyard, with panels bearing the names of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Turner.
past Grand Masters of the English School of Painting."

 The frieze and ceiling was painted ivory white, and the walls were maroon "of dead texture" to show off the artworks and frames.
Although the room is still there, the frieze is lost, or possibly hidden.

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This is a listed building. It was designed at a cost of £9.000 by William Henry Thorp of Albion Street, Leeds, and opened by Archibald Witham Scarr (1827–1904), Mayor of Leeds, and Hubert von Herkomer on Wednesday 3 October 1888. Its ground floor gallery was called the Queen's Room (re-named as of 2019 the Ziff Gallery): 
"A beautiful rectangular apartment with arches crossing its corners, which give the roof an octagonal character, with coved ceiling and lantern, and with clerestory lights through arcades, with classic moulded pilasters; it has a fine frieze designed by Mr Thorp, and carried out by Mr J.W. Appleyard, with panels bearing the names of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Turner. past Grand Masters of the English School of Painting."
 The frieze and ceiling was painted ivory white, and the walls were maroon "of dead texture" to show off the artworks and frames. Although the room is still there, the frieze is lost, or possibly hidden.
 Media related to History of Leeds City Art Gallery at Wikimedia Commons
John Wormald Appleyard