This painter was which famous author's sister? The great British art quiz

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions come from Rye Art Gallery Collection. The gallery holds a permanent collection of hundreds of works, mostly two dimensional, but including some three-dimensional pieces. The majority are of the early 20th century, including some by artists of national importance – Burra and Nash, who lived in Rye, also Grant, Bell, Hitchens, Gill, Piper, Sutherland, Cuming and others.

You can see art from Rye Art Gallery Collection on Art UK here. Find out more on the gallery website here.

1. 

   This sketch of Venus is by which well-known 19th-century artist?

   1. James Abbott McNeill Whistler

   2. Alexandre Cabanel

   3. John Singer Sargent

   4. Mary Cassatt

2. 

   Which medium has been used by British artist Paul Nash in Promenade?

   1. Lithograph

   2. Wood engraving

   3. Silkscreen print

   4. Copper etching

3. 

   Which female artist founded the Rye Art Gallery Trust in 1957?

   1. Diana Armfield

   2. Vanessa Bell

   3. Mary Stormont

   4. Margaret Helen Barnard

4. 

   John Piper painted this watercolour church in a village in Kent. Which village does the church belong to?

   1. Charing

   2. Hadlow

   3. Ruckinge

   4. Hamstead

5. 

   Which artist painted this colourful work titled Spring Garden Rye?

   1. Fred Cuming

   2. Richard Adams

   3. Louis Turpin

   4. Bernard McGuigan

6. 

   Approximately how many artworks feature in the Rye Art Gallery Collection?

   1. 250

   2. 450

   3. 650

   4. 550

7. 

   Which British painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group painted A Bridge, Paris housed in the Rye Art Gallery Collection?

   1. Vanessa Bell

   2. Clive Bell

   3. Dora Carrington

   4. Duncan Grant

8. 

   Which beloved local artist and inspirational teacher painted Clown in the collection, and had a retrospective show at the gallery earlier this year?

   1. Kitty French

   2. Kitty English

   3. Kitty Spanish

   4. Kitty Italian

Solutions

1:A - This etching on paper was completed by the American artist Whistler in 1859. He moved to Paris in 1855, followed by London in the early 1860s, where he painted his famous nocturnes inspired by the River Thames. Image: Venus, 1859, James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903). Credit: Rye Art Gallery , 2:B - Paul Nash was an exceptional surrealist painter and war artist, and used many different mediums throughout his life, including photography and etching. Image: Promenade, Paul Nash (1889–1946). Credit: Rye Art Gallery , 3:C - The collection has grown from the group of around 100 pictures bequeathed by the painter Mary Elizabeth Stormont to the Rye Art Gallery Trust she founded in 1957. ‘Rosamund’ Mary Stormont (1871–1962) © the copyright holder. Photo credit: Rye Art Gallery , 4:C - Piper’s full name was John Egerton Christmas Piper. His work often focused on the glory of the British landscape, especially churches and monuments. Image: Ruckinge Church, John Piper (1903–1992), © the Piper Estate / DACS 2020. Credit: Rye Art Gallery, 5:C - Contemporary artist Louis Turpin specialises in painting portraits and landscapes. In 1985, inspired by Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst, he embarked upon a continuing series of British garden paintings, a subject matter he continues to paint to this day. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the National Portrait Gallery. Image: Spring Garden, Rye, East Sussex, Louis Turpin (b.1947) © the artist. Credit: Rye Art Gallery , 6:C - The Rye Art Gallery holds a permanent collection of more than 600 works, mostly two dimensional, but including some three-dimensional pieces. Image: Island and Storm by Margaret Barnard (1898–1992) © the copyright holder. Credit: Rye Art Gallery , 7:A - In 1911, Vanessa Bell painted A Bridge, Paris, in which Pont-Neuf bridge can be seen. She was an outstanding artist and designer and a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group alongside her sister, Virginia Woolf, and husband, Clive Bell. Image: A Bridge, Paris, 1911, Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) © 1961 estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. Credit: Rye Art Gallery, 8:A - Kitty French was a beloved character around Rye, East Sussex. The works shown in the Rye Art Gallery, are part of the permanent collection and feature her influence and her legacy as a pioneer in arts education. Image: Clown No 7 Kitty French (1924–1989) © the copyright holder. Credit: Rye Art Gallery

Scores

1. 6 and above.

   You're a Rye genius!

2. 0 and above.

   Better luck next time!

3. 3 and above.

   Fair to middling!