Which miracle did St Patrick perform? 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 the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery has one of the largest and most diverse regional collections outside of London, holding almost one million objects across its six outstanding collections, comprising of fine and decorative art, ceramics, local history, natural sciences and archaeology. Its fine art collection, established in the 1920s, is distinguished by early- mid-20th-century art.

You can see art from the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on Art UK here, and find out more about the gallery on its website here.

Thérèse Lessore’s 1940 painting depicts a view from a famous Georgian Spa resort. Can you name the town?

Bath Thérèse Lessore was a founder member of the London Group of artists, formed to organise modern art exhibitions in Britain. This work was exhibited in the show Nine Painters: Vanessa Bell, Quentin Bell, Anthony Devas, Duncan Grant, Derek Hill, Therese Lessore, Colin MacInnes, Patricia Preece, Geoffrey Tibble at Alex Reid and Lefevre Ltd in May 1940, no. 49. Image: Entrance to the Pump Room, Bath, 1940 – Thérèse Lessore (1884–1945), the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

Mark Gertler’s Head of a Basque Shepherdess was probably painted during one of his lengthy stays on the continent, necessitated by his delicate health (he had tuberculosis). Later in his career, he also designed packaging for which well-known brand name?

Cadbury’s chocolate To promote its brand as a leader in British product design, Cadbury’s invited leading artists of the day to design unique chocolate boxes. In 1933, it launched its Famous Artists series of chocolate boxes – 11 designs were chosen: two by Laura Knight and the rest by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, CRW Nevinson, Mark Gertler, Philip Connard, Dod Procter, Ernest Procter, George Sheringham and Arthur Watts. Image: Head of a Basque Shepherdess, 1922 – Mark Gertler (1891-1939), the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

This painting by John Emery depicts a scene inspired by which Shakespeare play based in Italy?

Irish-born artist William Orpen’s atmospheric depiction of St Patrick draws on the old masters of Spanish painting such as Diego Velázquez and El Greco. What is the famous miracle attributed to the saint?

In William Mainwaring Palin’s painting of the Temple of Minerva, the goddess Minerva wears a tunic decorated with the symbol of a serpent, one of the sacred creatures associated with her. Can you name another that also takes the form of a famous object in the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery’s collections?

The invention of paint tubes in the 1840s increased the popularity of painting en plein air and enabled artists to capture dramatic landscapes in situ. This famous mountain peak in the Alps was painted by John Nash Peake in 1899. Which one is it?

This model of the sculpture Eternal Spring by Auguste Rodin was cast in bronze between 1898 and 1918. The original was to be part of a large-scale decorative scheme depicting hell, inspired by the work of which author?

The West Country has been a popular destination for artists since the 19th century, with several regional schools being established there. This view by Staffordshire artist John Currie was painted during his visit to Cornwall. Where is it?

You got…

Not a bad result, if not quite worth getting your finest bone china out to toast.

This was more a crock smash than fine china.

Hats off to you – this result certainly isn’t up the spout.

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