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The great British art quiz: set by Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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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 are from Pallant House Gallery in West Sussex. Located in the heart of Chichester on the south coast, Pallant House is a unique combination of a Grade I-listed, Queen Anne townhouse and an award-winning contemporary extension. Winner of the 2007 Gulbenkian prize for museums and galleries, Pallant House Gallery has one of the most significant collections of modern British art in Britain.

You can see art from Pallant House Gallery on Art UK here. Find out more on the Pallant House Gallery website here.

The brick gateposts at the front of Pallant House Gallery’s Queen Anne townhouse are topped by stone sculptures depicting which creature from the family crest of Henry Peckham, the wine merchant who built the house in 1712-13?

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Which French artist painted this intimate painting of a woman combing her hair?

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A similar work by the French impressionist artist Edgar Degas recently joined the Pallant House Gallery collection. It had once belonged to which American socialite, who married into the English aristocracy and is depicted as a sphinx at Blenheim Palace?

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This lithograph by Dame Paula Rego depicts a scene from which 19th century English novel?

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Which Royal Academician was best known for his sensitive paintings of the Jamaican model Henry Thomas?

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This painting is called China Dogs in a St Ives Window, but which of these artists painted it?

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British pop artist Patrick Caulfield painted this work in 1963, but which modern artist does it portray?

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Which of the following British artists in the Pallant House Gallery collection painted some of his most-loved paintings while living in a Gypsy caravan in the South Downs just north of Chichester?

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You got…

Room for improvement but not too shabby.

Hmm … perhaps a trip to Chichester is in order once we get out of quarantine.

Seriously impressive – you certainly know your Paul Nash from your John Piper.


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