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Why is a tree sprouting from this boat?: The great British art quiz

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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 thanks to the Queen’s House, Greenwich. One of the first buildings in the UK to be constructed in the Palladian style, it has long been an important site for women’s history. Today this London building is home to the National Maritime Museum, spanning old master paintings to contemporary installations.

You can see art from the National Maritime Museum on Art UK here. Find out more on the Royal Museums Greenwich website here.

How many pearls is Elizabeth I thought to be wearing in the ‘Armada portrait’?

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Anne of Denmark commissioned the Queen’s House after the Tudor Palace of Greenwich became part of her ‘jointure’. How, is it said, did Greenwich become ‘her’ palace?

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Inigo Jones was employed at the early Stuart courts in which of the following capacities?

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Which monarch invited Dutch artists to set up a studio in the Queen’s House?

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Which monarch weighed in on Christopher Wren’s plans for what is now the Old Royal Naval College to insist that the Queen’s House had an uninterrupted view of the river?

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For which painter was Emma Hart (later Emma Hamilton) a muse?

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This painting by Henry Nelson O’Neil was painted in 1861, the same year as which historic event, alluded to in the work?

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The motif of a tree growing out of a boat in Kehinde Wiley’s Ship of Fools refers to an old master painting, with which Wiley’s work shares its name, by which artist?

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You got…

Oh dear – you did royally rubbish

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Time to crown yourself King or Queen of this quiz!

Oh dear – you did royally rubbish

Oh dear – you did royally rubbish

Not bad but you’re not yet ready to reign

Not bad but you’re not yet ready to reign

Not bad but you’re not yet ready to reign


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