Who are these storm-tossed lovers? The great British art quiz

All at sea ... guess who these lovers are at question 7. Photograph: Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council

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

Today, our questions are set by City Art Centre, part of Museums & Galleries Edinburgh. The centre’s fine art collection traces the development of Scottish art from the 17th century to the present day. Numbering almost 5,000 art works, it includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, tapestry and installation art. Among the highlights are key works by Allan Ramsay, Alexander Nasmyth, EA Hornel, John Duncan, JD Fergusson, William Gillies, Joan Eardley, Eduardo Paolozzi and Victoria Crowe.

You can see art from City Art Centre, Edinburgh on Art UK here. Find out more on the centre’s website here.

1. 

   This painting by John Wilson Ewbank shows vast crowds of spectators assembled in central Edinburgh to witness the arrival of a British monarch. Which king or queen is making an entrance?

   1. Queen Victoria

   2. King George IV

   3. King Charles II

   4. King George I

2. 

   The City Art Centre collection includes several important works by the Scottish Colourists, including Iona by FCB Cadell. On how many occasions did the Scottish Colourists exhibit together during their lifetimes?

   1. Nine

   2. One

   3. Three

   4. Fourteen

3. 

   Les Joueurs by Mary Cameron shows a trio of Spanish men playing cards around a table. Can you identify the profession of the figure on the left?

   1. Plumber

   2. Matador

   3. Farrier

   4. Potter

4. 

   William Strang produced the enigmatic portrait Dreams in 1915. By then, he had made his name as a successful portrait painter, but how did he begin his artistic career?

   1. As a sculptor

   2. As a stained-glass designer

   3. As an architect

   4. As a printmaker

5. 

   Eric Robertson painted this striking scene based on his experience of serving with an ambulance unit during the first world war. Which fellow Scottish artist did he marry shortly before the outbreak of war?

   1. Cecile Walton

   2. Joan Eardley

   3. Dorothy Johnstone

   4. Phoebe Traquair

6. 

   In 1964, the Scottish Modern Arts Association presented the majority of its art collection to the city of Edinburgh. How many sculptures by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray were included?

   1. One

   2. Six

   3. Seventeen

   4. Three

7. 

   Which fictional pair of lovers is depicted in this painting by John Duncan?

   1. Tristan and Isolde

   2. Orpheus and Eurydice

   3. Romeo and Juliet

   4. Lancelot and Guinevere

8. 

   In 1905, the artist SJ Peploe moved into a new studio at 32 York Place in Edinburgh’s New Town. Which Scottish artist had previously worked in this studio?

   1. David Octavius Hill

   2. David Wilkie

   3. Allan Ramsay

   4. Henry Raeburn

Solutions

1:B - George IV travelled to Edinburgh in 1822, the year after his coronation. It was the first time a reigning monarch had visited Scotland in almost 200 years – the previous visitor was Charles II in 1651. George IV’s visit was marked with a series of elaborate processions, pageants and banquets, orchestrated by the writer Walter Scott. Image: The Entry of George IV into Edinburgh from Calton Hill, 1822, John Wilson Ewbank (c.1799-1847), City Art Centre. , 2:C - FCB Cadell, SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson and GL Hunter are now known collectively as the Scottish Colourists. However, they never constituted a formal group, and only exhibited together on three occasions during their lifetimes. In fact, the term Scottish Colourists was only applied to them for the first time in 1948, after the deaths of Cadell, Peploe and Hunter. Image: Iona, by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh. , 3:C - The man’s leather apron indicates that he is a farrier, whose work involves shoeing horses. Between 1900 and 1910, Cameron spent much time painting in Spain. A keen horsewoman, she was particularly interested in the plight of horses in traditional Spanish bullfights, and often used bullring workers as models in her compositions. Les Joueurs is one of very few works by Cameron to be held in a public collection. Image: Les Joueurs, by Mary Cameron (1864-1921), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh. , 4:D - Dumbarton-born Strang spent the first two decades of his career working mostly as a printmaker. He studied under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School of Art, London, and was greatly influenced by his tutor’s approach to etching. In later life, Strang concentrated on portrait painting, counting Thomas Hardy and Vita Sackville-West among his famous clients. The sitter featured in Dreams has not yet been identified. Image: Dreams, 1915, by William Strang (1859-1921), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh., 5:A - Eric Robertson and Cecile Walton married in 1914. They exhibited together in the years before the first world war, and afterwards as part of the radical Edinburgh Group, which included DM Sutherland and Dorothy Johnstone. Cecile Walton was the daughter of the Glasgow Boys artist EA Walton, but her family did not approve of her marriage to Robertson, who had a reputation as an artistic and social rebel. Image: Shellburst, c.1919, by Eric Harald Macbeth Robertson (1887-1941), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh., 6:B - The Scottish Modern Arts Association presented over 300 art works to the city of Edinburgh when it disbanded in 1964, an event that has significantly enriched the present-day collection. Among these works were six sculptures by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, including portrait busts of the artists William Skeoch Cumming and George Reid, and this playful bronze study of a young goat. Image: A Kid of the Goats, 1919, Charles Henshaw & Sons Ltd and James Pittendrigh MacGillivray (1856–1938), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh., 7:A - Duncan was one of the principal figures associated with the Celtic revival movement in Scotland at the turn of the 20th century. He often drew inspiration from Celtic mythology and folklore in his work. Here he portrays a scene from the story of Tristan and Isolde (also known as Tristan and Iseult), in which a Cornish knight falls in love with an Irish princess. Image: Tristan and Isolde, 1912, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh., 8:D - Raeburn moved to 32 York Place in 1799 and established a studio there. He made a number of modifications to the building, enlarging the north-facing windows and installing a system of shutters to better control the light. Peploe was able to make use of these architectural features over a century later. He painted this freely handled still life not long after moving in. Image: Still Life, Samuel John Peploe (1871–1935), Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   You're practically one of the Scottish Colourists!

2. 7 and above.

   You're practically one of the Scottish Colourists!

3. 0 and above.

   You're at risk of being banished to Iona!

4. 4 and above.

   Stop acting the goat!