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Art Quiz Questions

1. Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by which English artist?
2. On 15 November 2018, which artist's 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold at Christie's auction house in New York City for 90 million dollars?
3. The Fighting Temeraire, painted in 1838, is an oil painting by which English artist?
4. George Stubbs was an English painter best known for painting which subject?








5. Girl with Balloon is a series of stencil murals by which artist?
6. Whose famous works include The Blue Boy and Mr and Mrs Andrews?
7. L. S. Lowry, famous for painting North West England industrial scenes, died in which decade?
8. The 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais known as Bubbles became famous when it was in advertisements for what product?
9. The Hay Wain, a painting by John Constable, depicts a rural scene on which river? This river forms most of the boundary between Suffolk and Essex.
10. Which artist spent the latter years of his life at the end of the 19th century painting the twelve works known as The Manchester Murals for Manchester Town Hall?

Answers:

1. William Hogarth
2. David Hockney
3. Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner)
4. Horses
5. Banksy
6. Thomas Gainsborough
7. 1970s (1976)
8. Pears soap








9. River Stour
10. Ford Madox Brown