What triggered the riot in this picture? The great British art quiz

Bristol Riots: The Burning of the Toll Houses on Prince Street Bridge with St Mary Redcliffe, 1831, by William James Müller (1812-1845). Photograph: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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

Today, our questions are set by Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Its collection includes art from the Renaissance to artists emerging on the global scene today. The art gallery opened its doors in 1905 but the museum was founded in 1823. As well as art, the collection boasts archaeology, applied art, biology, Eastern art, Egyptology, geology, social, industrial and maritime history and world cultures.

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1. 

   Barbara Hepworth painted The Hands in 1948 after the surgeon Norman Capener invited her to draw in his operating theatre. What was the condition for which her daughter had had treatment that led to the friendship between sculptor and surgeon?

   1. Osteomyelitis

   2. Tonsillitis

   3. Appendicitis

   4. Inflamed adenoids

2. 

   Édouard Vuillard painted Lucie Hessel several times. What was his relationship to her husband?

   1. Brother

   2. Dealer

   3. Best friend

   4. Co-founder of the Nabis

3. 

   The female sitter in Eva Gonzalés’s The Donkey Ride is her sister. What did she do after the artist died?

   1. Marry Gonzalés’s husband

   2. Become an artist

   3. Become a model for Manet

   4. Set up a donkey sanctuary

4. 

   Il Duchetto by Marco D’Oggiono depicts Francesco Maria Sforza. What is the bird he is clutching?

   1. A goldfinch

   2. A nightingale

   3. A goldcrest

   4. A wood warbler

5. 

   William Muller and James Baker Pyne made oil sketches on paper of the Bristol Riots of 1831. What triggered the riots?

   1. Bristol’s Recorder Sir Charles Wetherell voting against electoral reform in Parliament

   2. The trial of Colonel Brereton

   3. Food shortages

   4. The omission of Nonconformists from the new Marriage Act

6. 

   Eve at the Fountain by Edward Hodges Baily was the first art acquisition of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. What is the renowned London landmark also sculpted by the same artist?

   1. Lord Nelson, atop his column on Trafalgar Square

   2. Eros at Piccadilly Circus

   3. Achilles at Hyde Park

   4. Cavalry Memorial at Hyde Park

7. 

   In Japanese culture, what does cherry blossom represent?

   1. Spring and renewal

   2. Hope

   3. The transience (or fleeting nature) of life

   4. All of the above

8. 

   This delftware dish depicting Queen Mary was made in which Bristol suburb?

   1. Fishponds

   2. Clifton

   3. Brislington

   4. Crew's Hole

Solutions

1:A - Hepworth used sterilised sketchbooks in the operating theatres. She likened the work of surgeons and nurses to sculpture: "a special grace of mind and body induced a spontaneous space composition, an articulated and animated kind of abstract sculpture very close to what I have been seeking in my own work". Image: The Hands, 1948, Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975), © Bowness. Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 2:B - Vuillard became close to Lucie and Jos Hessel in 1900 when Jos’s company Bernheim Jeune began to sell his work in their gallery. The three dined and holidayed together. It looks like Vuillard has included some of his own paintings on the wall behind Lucie. Image: Interior with Madame Hessel and Her Dog, 1910, Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 3:A - Gonzalés was taught by Manet, whose portrait of her is in the National Gallery. This is the only painting by Gonzalés in a public collection in Britain. Although it has a radical impressionist appearance, it was discovered in her studio, unfinished, after her death. Image: The Donkey Ride, c.1880, Eva Gonzalés (1849-1883), Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 4:A - Children kept birds as pets but the goldfinch, with its distinctive crimson marking, is also symbolic of Christ’s crucifixion. Image: Francesco Maria Sforza (1491-1512), Il Duchetto, c.1493, Marco d’Oggiono (c.1475-1530), Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 5:A - As well as being Bristol’s recorder, Sir Charles Wetherell was MP for a rotten borough, Boroughbridge. His claim in Parliament that the people of Bristol weren’t interested in Reform meant that his visit to the city for the autumn assizes was met with protest. Wetherell’s parliamentary borough was abolished after the Great Reform Act of 1832. Image: Bristol Riots: The Burning of the Toll Houses on Prince Street Bridge with St Mary Redcliffe, 1831, William James Müller (1812-1845), Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 6:A - The sculpture depicts the moment in Milton’s Paradise Lost when Eve first sees her reflection in a pool: "as I bent down to look, just opposite, a shape within the watery gleam appeared, bending to look on me. I started back, it started back; but pleased I soon returned". The V&A has a companion piece illustrating the lines that follow, "Eve listening to the voice", the speaker being Satan who will use Eve’s pleasure to tempt her. Image: Eve at the Fountain, 1822, Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867), Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 7:D - From the series, Modern Flower Notes, this print is probably part of a triptych. The scene might be set on Mukojima, an area on the banks of the Sumida river in Edo (Tokyo) famous for its brightly coloured cherry trees with double blossoms. Visitors to Mukojima would picnic beneath the cherry blossom. Image: Utagawa Yoshitora (active 1836-1887), Cherry Blossom, 1843-45, courtesy of Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives, 8:C - Bristol has one of the largest collections of English delftware, representing a major industry in and around the city from the 1640s until 1785. Delftware gave way to ordinary earthenwares, in particular those made by the firm of Pountney, which survived in the city until 1969. There were two porcelain factories. The factory owned by Benjamin Lund made imitation or "soft-paste" porcelains around 1750; the other, operating in the 1770s on Castle Green, made true "hard-paste" porcelain as produced in China. Image: Dish, courtesy of Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives

Scores

1. 6 and above.

   You're the best in the west.

2. 0 and above.

   A result that's more drizzle than Brizzle.

3. 3 and above.

   Not bad at all.