Which children's author was inspired by 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 the Foundling Museum, which tells the remarkable story of the Foundling Hospital, the UK’s first children’s charity and first public art gallery. By transforming disadvantaged children’s lives through the arts, the museum continues the work of the hospital’s governors, Hogarth and Handel, and through its collections, exhibitions, commissions and participatory projects, it inspires people to make the world a better place.
You can see art from the Foundling Museum on Art UK here. Find out more on the Foundling Museum website here.
1.Who is the artist most famously connected with the Foundling Hospital?
Allan Ramsey
Joseph Highmore
Joshua Reynolds
William Hogarth
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2.Isabella, Duchess of Manchester, was an early supporter of the Foundling Hospital. She has been represented as which Roman goddess in this portrait?
Juno
Diana
Ceres
Minerva
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3.Which famous foundling features in the Court Room at the Foundling Museum?
Heathcliff
Moses
Tom Jones
Oliver Twist
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4.Gainsborough was famous for portraits set within landscapes. How old was he when he created this roundel for the Foundling Hospital’s Court Room?
21
18
29
35
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5.This painting by Thomas Kennington is a favourite of visitors to the Foundling Museum. It is thought to have inspired a character in a story by which children’s author?
Michael Morpurgo
Enid Blyton
Jacqueline Wilson
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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6.Which artist made this bust of the composer George Frideric Handel, another great supporter of the Foundling Hospital?
Auguste Rodin
Louis François Roubiliac
John Michael Rysbrack
Jacob Epstein
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7.What is the well-known song whose words are being sold by the pregnant ballad-seller in the museum’s masterpiece by William Hogarth, The March of the Guards to Finchley?
Uptown Funk
Charlie is My Darling
God Save the King
Over the Hills and Far Away
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8.What musical instrument is the boy holding in this sculpture by contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare?
French Horn
Fife
Cornet
Trumpet
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