Which famous architect is meeting their end? 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 more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK sets the questions.

Today our questions are from Leighton House Museum, the former home of the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton. The only purpose-built studio house in the UK that is open to the public, it contains a significant collection of paintings and sculpture by Leighton and his contemporaries.

You can see art from Leighton House Museum on Art UK here. Find out more on the museum’s website here.

Many of Frederic Leighton’s early paintings took their inspiration from the Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari’s text The Lives of the Artists. It includes this painting that shows the death of which famous figure?

The woman depicted in this portrait was a close friend of Leighton and George Frederic Watts – and a painter herself. What was her name?

Which British artist and illustrator designed the mosaic in this image?

Leighton’s friend and fellow artist Giovanni Costa also shared his admiration of landscapes. What was the name of the informal art school associated with Costa?

Leighton was a keen traveller and during his trips he would make small landscape studies of the places he visited. Which city is shown in this work?

As part of a lengthy preparatory process, Leighton created colour sketches for all of his major paintings. Which painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1892, does this colour sketch relate to?

In this portrait, Mrs H Evans Gordon, nee May Sartoris, is shown wearing a particular type of clothing fashionable among the artistic upper classes in the late 19th century. What was its name?

When the painter William Quiller Orchardson saw Clytie in progress in Leighton’s studio, he said the artist had “done nothing finer than the sky”. What location inspired the painting’s sunset?

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