What is the Laughing Cavalier not wearing? The great British art quiz

This quiz 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, they are set by the Wallace Collection, an internationally outstanding collection containing masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour and porcelain. Built during the 18th and 19th centuries by successive marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, the collection was given to the British nation in 1897, so that it could be kept together and enjoyed. It was an astonishing bequest and one of the greatest gifts of art works ever transferred into public ownership.

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

Which fictional character bought a reproduction of Thomas Lawrence’s (1769-1830) portrait of George IV?

The French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), who is represented at the Wallace Collection with no less than 21 paintings, commanded the highest prices of any painter of his day. Which fictional character sees a painting by Greuze at the house of his or her rival?

Which of the following items do NOT appear on the doublet worn by the sitter in The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals (c 1581-1666)?

Adriaen Brouwer (c 1605-38) was something of a ‘painter’s painter’. Which of the following artists collected no less than 17 of his paintings?

This oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was designed for a tapestry and shows a famous defeat in battle. But whose defeat is it?

Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) was a painter and civil engineer. Which of the following was he not associated with?

Which of the works listed below was NOT influenced by Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing?

The Wallace Collection has no fewer than four portraits of Mrs Robinson, a famous actress of the Georgian period. What was her nickname?

You got…

It’s no masterpiece, but not a bad result either.

Unlike the cavalier, you won’t be laughing at this score.

Congratulations – you certainly know your old masters.

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