Which literary character inspired this painting? 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 will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. The museum houses a rich and fascinating collection of paintings, Japanese prints, Christian icons, medieval manuscripts, natural history specimens, Egyptian artefacts, coins and the local and social history of its home town. In addition to existing collections, generous bequests from Thomas Boys Lewis and Robert Edward Hart have helped to create a diverse and renowned collection. You can see art from Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery on Art UK here. Find out more on the museum’s website here.

The Blackburn-born artist Albert Neilson ‘Monkey’ Hornby was the first of only two men to captain the English national side of which two sports?

Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery holds one of the largest collections of Japanese prints outside of London, including work by artists Hokusai, Hiroshige and Koryūsai. Which of these facts about Hokusai is untrue?

Mother and Child (Cherries) by Lord Frederic Leighton was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 and is an important work in his Venice series. Whose tomb did Leighton design?

Originally bequeathed to Whalley Abbey, Blackburn’s collection of religious icons were purchased by the museum in 1971. The icons contain an abundance of symbolic imagery – what does a cloth draped between two buildings represent?

Saint George features on a large number of icons. Which of the following is Saint George not a patron of?

James Sharples was a working blacksmith who painted The Forge in 1849. Untrained as a painter, he also designed the emblem and membership certificate for which new trade union in 1852?

Hetty Sorrel by John Collier was based on a scene from a novel by which author?

Laying the Foundation Stone by Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood depicts the day that work began on Blackburn Cotton Exchange in 1863. Charles Dickens made a public appearance at Blackburn Cotton Exchange on 19 April 1869. Which of his novels did Sherwood read?

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