The great British art quiz: the final bumper round – with a chance to win a prize!

Francis Bacon’s Study for Self Portrait, 1963. Photograph: Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales/© The estate of Francis Bacon. DACS 2020

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Since the start of lockdown, the Guardian has published 100 Great British art quizzes set by 100 collections across the UK. To celebrate the end of this epic series, Art UK has set the final (extra-long) quiz to highlight some of the most intriguing works from some of the other 3,000 collections found on its website. Continue scrolling to see how much you know about the history of art and the UK’s cultural heritage.

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1. 

   This Roman portrait mummy from the 1st century AD was discovered in Cairo, Egypt, and now belongs in the collection of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Which well-known fictional character does this woman share her name with?

   1. Aurelia

   2. Matilda

   3. Hermione

   4. Juno

2. 

   This 14th-century wooden figure of Guanyin from the Chinese early Ming dynasty is housed in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Guanyin, is a 'bodhisattva' or holy figure associated with which of the below?

   1. Pride

   2. Compassion

   3. Beauty

   4. Charity

3. 

   This 15th-century tempera on panel is housed in Museums Sheffield and depicts which female saint?

   1. Barbara

   2. Apollonia

   3. Philomena

   4. Hilda

4. 

   One of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery, An Old Woman – also known as the The Ugly Duchess – was painted by Quinten Massys in 1513, and is thought to be a satirical portrait and study of ugliness. Massys was believed to be in correspondence with which of his artistic contemporaries?

   1. Caravaggio

   2. Botticelli

   3. Michelangelo

   4. Leonardo da Vinci

5. 

   This scene, showing the Adoration of the Magi, is housed in Upton House in Warwickshire. The studio of which Dutch painter is credited with the creation of this 15th-century work?

   1. Hans Memling

   2. Frans Hals

   3. Hieronymous Bosch

   4. Johannes Vermeer

6. 

   This portrait of Oliver Cromwell in Worcester City Museums was inspired by the 17th-century work by Sir Peter Lely (1618–80). According to legend, Cromwell coined which famous expression after requesting to be painted?

   1. In full battle armour

   2. Warts and all

   3. Dressed to kill

   4. With the devil in his eyes

7. 

   This 19th-century oil on canvas by Walter Wallis can be found in the National Portrait Gallery. It depicts Samuel Coleridge-Taylor aged six, who became famous for what profession?

   1. Composer

   2. Artist

   3. Poet

   4. Actor

8. 

   Landscape by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is housed in York Art Gallery. Which painter said the following about the artist in 1897? ‘There is only one master here – Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing.’

   1. Pablo Picasso

   2. Edgar Degas

   3. Berthe Morisot

   4. Claude Monet

9. 

   Housed in Sudley House, Liverpool, this work is by the French artist Rosa Bonheur, who became one of the most famous animalier painters of her era. Bonheur was also a feminist who defied gender norms. Which of the following was she not known for?

   1. Wearing men’s clothing

   2. Chain smoking

   3. Being openly lesbian

   4. Being someone’s wife

10. 

    This bust found in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum depicts the entrepreneur William Henry Smith, who revolutionised which industry?

    1. Computers

    2. Steel

    3. Fishing

    4. Bookselling

11. 

    Little is known about the British artist Emmeline Deane, who painted fellow artist Anna Bilinska in 1884, a portrait now housed in Victoria Art Gallery, Bath. Which country did Bilinska come from?

    1. Russia

    2. Poland

    3. France

    4. Sweden

12. 

    Winter Landscape is housed in The Box, Plymouth. Which French artist, inspired by the techniques of impressionism and neo-impressionism, completed this wintry scene in 1920?

    1. Camille Pissarro

    2. Lucien Pissarro

    3. Georges Seurat

    4. Gustave Courbet

13. 

    A Woman Seated in the Garden was painted by the belle époque artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and can be found in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. The painter suffered from which illness towards the end of his life?

    1. Syphilis

    2. Depression

    3. Smallpox

    4. Tuberculosis

14. 

    Which war artist painted The Airman, housed in Manchester Art Gallery?

    1. Éthel Gabain

    2. Paul Nash

    3. Stanley Spencer

    4. Frank Brangwyn

15. 

    This painting is believed to be of the trans woman Lili Elbe (1882–1931) and has been attributed to Danish artist Gerda Wegener, the subject's spouse. In what year did Elbe undergo gender reassignment surgery?

    1. 1930

    2. 1952

    3. 1907

    4. 1889

16. 

    The Bokhara Coat by Mark Gertler can be found in the Touchstones Rochdale museum. Which artist belonging to the Bloomsbury group was Gertler in a relationship with?

    1. Vanessa Bell

    2. Eileen Agar

    3. Dora Carrington

    4. Leonora Carrington

17. 

    Maggi Hambling’s Scallop: A Conversation with the Sea stands in which British seaside town?

    1. Herne Bay, Kent

    2. St Ives, Cornwall

    3. Aldeburgh, Suffolk

    4. Sandown, Isle of Wight

18. 

    This enigmatic work Condor and the Mole by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye can be found in the Arts Council Collection. In what year was she shortlisted for the Turner prize?

    1. 2011

    2. 2013

    3. 2008

    4. 2018

19. 

    This photograph by Donald Rodney belongs in the Tate collection. What material is the miniature house in the palm of the artist’s hand made from?

    1. Skin

    2. Paper

    3. Sand

    4. Glass

20. 

    Which contemporary artist created this blue abstraction housed in the Pier Arts Centre, Scotland?

    1. Howard Hodgkin

    2. Tracey Emin

    3. Anish Kapoor

    4. Peter Doig

Solutions

1:C - This Roman portrait mummy from the Julio-Claudian dynasty is known as Hermione Grammatike and is part of the Egyptian collection in the Lawrence Room Collections at Girton College. She was discovered in the Roman cemetery at Hawara by the archaeologist and egyptologist Flinders Petrie (1853–1942). Image: Hermione Grammatike (detail from Fayum Portrait Mummy, Roman Period), AD 1-100; credit: Girton College, University of Cambridge , 2:B - This carved wood figure of Guanyin with flowering draperies and a diadem (jewelled crown) stands on a pedestal of two hemispheres, with a covering of gesso and paint traces. In Chinese Buddhism, Guanyin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the pinnacle of mercy, compassion, kindness and love. Image: Guanyin with Diadem and Flowers, 14th century, unknown artist; National Museums Scotland, 3:A - In Christian art, Saint Barbara is customarily identified by the tower in which she was imprisoned by her pagan father, Dioscorus. According to legend, when she professed Christianity and refused marriage, she was tortured and killed by Dioscorus, before he was suddenly struck by lightning and turned into ashes. She became a saint associated with military professions, engineers and architects. Image: St Barbara, 15th century, Italian School; Museums Sheffield, 4:D - Like Leonardo da Vinci, Massys had an interest in the bizarre and grotesque, and it is believed that the two artists exchanged letters and sketches. The Ugly Duchess is part of a pair: her ‘other half’ is in a private collection in New York and is thought to be Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. In recent decades, it has been suggested that the unknown sitter of the Ugly Duchess was suffering from a rare condition known as Paget’s disease. Image: An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’), c.1513, Quinten Massys (1466–1530); National Gallery, London, 5:C - The creator of the otherworldly triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter of the 15th and early 16th centuries. This oil-on-oak-panel work shows the moment when the three Magi – Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar – arrive at the birth of baby Jesus with the gifts of myrrh, gold and frankincense. This painting is the centre panel of a larger triptych. Image: The Adoration of the Magi (triptych, centre panel), c.1495–1500, the studio of Hieronymous Bosch (c.1450–1516); National Trust Images, 6:B - Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the final battle of the English Civil War. He died seven years to the day after the battle, having supposedly made ‘a deal with the devil’ at Worcester the night before the battle. Cromwell’s famous chin wart does not appear in this 19th-century portrait, but does in an earlier representation by Lely, to whom he ordered to 'remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it'. Image: Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), attributed to Wyke Bayliss (1835–1906); Worcester City Museums , 7:A - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was a composer who enjoyed considerable success in the early years of the 20th century. At the age of five, Coleridge-Taylor began playing the violin and joined the choir of a Presbyterian church in Croydon. After showing talent and an affinity for music, he was admitted to the Royal College of Music in 1890, at the age of 15. Born to an English mother and father from Sierra Leone, he later became a political activist and toured in the United States. He was named after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Image: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1881, Walter Wallis; National Portrait Gallery, London , 8:D - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot turned to painting aged 26, and became one of the most famous landscape artists of the 19th century. He was known for his open-air studies that later influenced the impressionists, including Monet, whose earlier works show the influence of Corot. Image: Landscape, 1860–70, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875); York Museums Trust , 9:D - Rosa Bonheur was a hugely successful artist in the mid-19th century who refused to live by society’s rules or expectations. She wore trousers so that she could work in comfort, and spent much of her life painting animals. It is believed that she was a lesbian and today she represents an important figure in queer art history. She was buried with Nathalie Micas, her lifelong companion, in Paris. Image: Le Retour du Moulin, 1850–70, Rosa Bonheur (1822–99); Sudley House , 10:D - William Henry Smith, founder of the eponymous stationers’ chain today known as WH Smith, took note of the Victorian railway boom and established kiosks at stations to serve the travelling public, including the sales of books. In 1966, the company developed a unique six-digit reference number for managing publications which eventually became the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) we know today. Image: William Henry Smith, Esq. (1792–1865), 1856, Joseph Durham (1814–77); Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, 11:B - The Polish artist Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz most likely met Emmeline Deane in Paris in 1884, where Bilinska was studying on an art course for women. In this portrait, she is shown wearing a typical mourning dress, with what may be a black feather fan resting on her lap. In 1884, Anna’s father had died, leaving her impoverished. A year later her fiance also died. In despair, she travelled around France sketching and painting landscapes. After marrying in 1892 she had plans to set up an art school for women in Warsaw but died tragically young of heart disease. Image: Anna Bilinska (1857–93), 1884, Emmeline Deane (1858–1944); Victoria Art Gallery , 12:B - Lucien Pissarro was born in 1863 in Paris, as the eldest child of impressionist painter Camille Pissarro – who had exhibited at the first impressionist exhibition in 1874. In the tradition of his father, Lucien painted many pastoral landscapes, and continued the style of the neo-impressionists by applying paint in dots of colour. Father and son exhibited together in the last impressionist exhibition in 1886. Lucien Pissarro had emigrated to England with his family permanently in 1883-84. Image: Winter Landscape, 1920, Lucien Pissarro (1863–1944); The Box (Plymouth City Council), 13:A - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was known for being a regular at the Moulin Rouge, where he famously depicted the theatrical chorus lines of female dancers. In the 1890s, he painted many studies of women posed in garden settings, including this oil on cardboard work of an unknown woman. One decade later, at the age of 37, he died from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis, the latter of which was a common disease contracted by many other bohemian creatives of his era. Image: A Woman Seated in the Garden, 1890, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901); Henry Barber Trust, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 14:A - The French-born, Scottish artist Éthel Gabain was a renowned painter and war artist. This work is a striking depiction of an airman with his head turned to face the viewer – he wears a flying jacket, scarf and hat with his chin strap undone. In 1940, Gabain was commissioned by the War Artists’ Advisory Committee and travelled across Britain to capture the contributions of women during conflict. In 1944, Gabain painted Sir Alexander Fleming, in the laboratory where he discovered penicillin. Image: The Airman, 1937, Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950); Manchester Art Gallery, 15:A - Gerda Gottlieb Wegener (1889–1940) was a Danish painter who married Lili Elbe, known as Einar Wegener before transitioning. The artists met at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. The attribution of this painting to Gerda Wegener rests on her name, which appears on the work in the lower right. The film The Danish Girl which tells their story – starring Eddie Redmayne as Elbe and Alicia Vikander as Wegener – was released in 2015. Image: Lili Elbe, c.1928, attributed to Gerda Wegener (1885–1940); Wellcome Collection, 16:C - Gertler and Carrington met at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1910s, alongside their friend and fellow artist Richard Nevinson. When both men fell in love with Carrington, Gertler wrote to Nevinson: ‘I am writing here to tell you that our friendship must end from now, my sole reason being that I am in love with Carrington and I have reason to believe that you are so too. Therefore, much as I have tried to overlook it, I have come to the conclusion that rivals, and rivals in love, cannot be friends.’ Image: The Bokhara Coat, 1920, Mark Gertler (1891–1939); Bridgeman Images, 17:C - Maggi Hambling’s four-metre high monument was created in remembrance of the Aldeburgh resident and composer Benjamin Britten, who died in 1976. The artist described the shell as a conversation with the sea, and it symbolises Britten’s 1945 opera, Peter Grimes, which features the line: ‘I hear those voices that will not be drowned.’ Image: Scallop: A Conversation with the Sea, 2003, Maggi Hambling (b.1945) and Sam Dennis Pegg, © the artist; Tony Wooderson/Art UK, 18:B - The figures in Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings are not real people – she creates them from found images and her own imagination. The artist’s subjects are usually black individuals and imbued with a power and agency of their own. Beyond painting, writing is central to Yiadom-Boakye’s artistic practice, as she has explained: ‘I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write about.’ Image: Condor and the Mole, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London; Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, 19:A - Rodney’s minute sculpture of a house, called My Mother. My Father. My Sister. My Brother, was constructed from pieces of Rodney’s own skin, which were removed during the many operations he underwent to combat sickle cell anaemia – an inherited disease that predominantly affects people of African, Caribbean, eastern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Asian ancestry. Rodney was a successful artist associated with the BLK Art Group. He died from the disease in 1998. Image: In the House of My Father, 1996–1997, Donald G Rodney (1961–98), © the estate of Donald G Rodney; Tate , 20:C - The Indian-born artist Anish Kapoor is known for his large-scale public sculptures, including the ArcelorMittal Orbit in Stratford, London. However Kapoor also creates colourful two-dimensional paintings and etchings on paper, like this one in blue. An artist known for his fascination with the symbolism and history of colour, Kapoor has often used deep blue pigment, which was historically transported from central Asia to Europe, in the form of the precious pigment lapis lazuli. Image: Abstract Shape, Blue (from a set of 12 colour etchings), Anish Kapoor (b.1954), © Anish Kapoor, DACS 2020; Pier Arts Centre

Scores

1. 16 and above.

   You'll miss these quizzes won't you? Although clearly you already know everything.

2. 6 and above.

   Not a terrible attempt, but you should go to a museum when you can.

3. 11 and above.

   Very impressive – you certainly know your British art collections.

4. 0 and above.

   Well, you tried.

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