Who is this dog-loving future monarch? 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 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 the National Portrait Gallery in London, which holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Search more than 215,000 works in the collection online, 150,000 of which, from the 16th century to the present day, are illustrated.

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1. 

   This 16th-century portrait depicts Henry VIII’s wife Katherine Parr. What was Parr's fate in the marriage?

   1. Divorced

   2. Died in childbirth

   3. Executed

   4. Survived

2. 

   Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, was Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite courtier. In 1560, Dudley was involved in a scandal. What happened?

   1. He was suspected of killing his wife

   2. He was suspected of plotting against Elizabeth

   3. He was caught stealing valuable equipment from the royal stables

   4. He insulted the Spanish ambassador

3. 

   Which future monarch is depicted in this painting from 1630?

   1. Charles I

   2. Charles II

   3. Lady Jane Grey

   4. Henrietta Maria of France

4. 

   In this late 17th-century portrait, the Duchess de Bouillon holds a pearl above a gold cup. Which figure from ancient history is she impersonating?

   1. Aphrodite

   2. Boudica

   3. Cleopatra

   4. Nefertiti

5. 

   Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a former enslaved man, famous writer and abolitionist during the 18th century. In what year did he publish his celebrated autobiography?

   1. 1776

   2. 1821

   3. 1702

   4. 1789

6. 

   This portrait of the British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole was discovered in 2002 and is the only known oil painting of her in Britain. During which war did she become famous?

   1. Crimean war

   2. First world war

   3. Second world war

   4. Second Boer war

7. 

   This photograph was taken at a rally for women’s suffrage in Trafalgar Square in 1908. Which famous feminist is speaking to the crowds?

   1. Christabel Pankhurst

   2. Emmeline Pankhurst

   3. Millicent Fawcett

   4. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

8. 

   Which celebrated artist was captured in this photograph by Francis Goodman in 1945?

   1. Lucian Freud

   2. Frank Auerbach

   3. Mark Rothko

   4. Francis Bacon

Solutions

1:D - Henry VIII's sixth and last wife was an educated and pious woman who had a substantial influence on the ageing king. Katherine was kind to the king's children from his earlier marriages and tried to diminish religious persecution. After Henry's death she married Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, but she died a year later, shortly after giving birth to a daughter. Katherine published three books during her lifetime, one of which, Prayers on Meditations (1545), was the first book published by a queen of England under her own name in English. Image: Katherine Parr (1512-48), by an unknown artist, c.1545. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London , 2:A - Often regarded as a Machiavellian figure of the Elizabethan court, Dudley pursued the queen for many years and she gave him the title Earl of Leicester. In 1560, Dudley’s wife, Amy Robsart, died after allegedly falling down stairs. The resulting scandal made him the most unpopular man in Britain and reduced his chances of marrying the queen. The 19th-century painting The Death of Amy Robsart by William Frederick Yeames (1835–1918) can also be viewed on Art UK. Image: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532 or 1533-1588) by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist, c.1575. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London , 3:B - This is the earliest known portrait of Charles II, the eldest surviving child of Charles I who was executed by Oliver Cromwell’s forces in 1649. It was painted when Charles II was four months and 15 days old. At this age, he was described by his mother, Queen Henrietta Maria, as "so fat and so tall that he is taken for a year old". The painting was probably sent to the prince's godmother and grandmother, Marie de Medici, who had been Queen of France. The dog, held by the ear, is a toy spaniel, a breed which later came to be associated with Charles when king. Image: King Charles II (1630-1685) by an unknown artist, 1630. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London , 4:C - The pearl and gold cup allude to an incident in which Cleopatra of Egypt is said to have dissolved a rare pearl in a cup of vinegar and drunk the concoction in order to win a wager. This was a popular allegory in portraits of women of this period as it suggested that their beauty was as great as that of the famous queen of Egypt. Among other artists, the Italian painter Benedetto Gennari is responsible for popularising this tradition of portraiture. Image: Marie Anne De La Tour d’Auvergne, Duchesse de Bouillon, c.1672-1673 by Benedetto Gennari the younger. Credit: National Portrait Gallery , 5:D - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was first published in 1789 and chronicled the horrors of slavery. The text was sold widely and was pivotal in reshaping public opinion against the slave trade as well as growing support for the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British empire. Image: Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) (c.1745-97) by Daniel Orme after W Denton, published 1789. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London , 6:A - Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, her father a Scottish soldier and her mother a Jamaican nurse. In 1854, Seacole travelled to England and approached the War Office, asking to be sent as an army nurse to the Crimea. She was refused, so funded her own trip there, where she established the British Hotel to provide "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers". She became known as "Mother Seacole" and her reputation rivalled that of Florence Nightingale. Image: Mary Jane Seacole, by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. Credit: National Portrait Gallery , 7:B - Emmeline Pankhurst was a key activist in the suffragette movement and was instrumental in giving women the right to vote, which became law in 1918. Born in Moss Side, Manchester, she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Her daughters, Christabel, Sylvia and Adela were also important activists. In 1908, Emmeline was arrested for the first of seven times. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison where she went on hunger strike. Image: Emmeline Pankhurst Addressing a Crowd in Trafalgar Square, by an unknown photographer for Central Press 1908. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London , 8:A - Born in Berlin to a Jewish family, Freud moved to the UK in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. He was the son of the architect Ernest L Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud. This photograph was taken early in Freud's career, soon after studying at Goldsmiths College (1942–3) and his first solo exhibition at London's Reid & Lefèvre Gallery in 1944. Photographer Francis Goodman was also from a German-Jewish family who moved to the UK in 1931. Image: Lucian Freud by Francis Goodman, c.1945. Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   A brush with greatness!

2. 7 and above.

   A great impression!

3. 6 and above.

   A good impression

4. 5 and above.

   A good impression

5. 4 and above.

   A decent impression

6. 3 and above.

   Could be worse…

7. 2 and above.

   Start brushing up!

8. 0 and above.

   No prizes for guessing!

9. 1 and above.

   Start brushing up!