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Who is the saint being sent to her death? The great British art quiz

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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 our questions are set by the Hunterian, at the University of Glasgow, one of the UK’s leading university museums. Its art collection comprises more than 900 paintings, 40,000 works on paper and an impressive selection of applied and decorative art and sculpture. Important historically because of its origins in William Hunter’s collection, it contains works by Rembrandt, Chardin, Stubbs, and has developed particular strengths in Whistler, Mackintosh and Scottish art, especially the works of the Glasgow Boys and Scottish colourists.

You can see art from the Hunterian, University of Glasgow on Art UK here. Find out more on the Hunterian, University of Glasgow website here.

Which artist painted this portrait of William Hunter, founder of the Hunterian?

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What is the title of this John Duncan Fergusson work that shows the University of Glasgow in the background?

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The title of this work by James Abbott McNeill Whistler is also the title of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe. What is the name of the poem?

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The martyrdom of which saint is depicted in this 1647 painting by Jan Cossiers?

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What was a parrot thought to signify in Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries?

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This epic work from the Hunterian collection is one of an influential cycle of six paintings by Scottish artist Gavin Hamilton illustrating Homer’s Iliad. What is the title?

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Where was Edward A Hornel’s Mine Own Back Garden, the subject of this 1887 painting?

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Which Scottish mountain features in this work by Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe?

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