What's wrong with these horses' legs? The great British art quiz

Finish of the 1827 Gold Cup, 1827, by John Frederick Herring I. Photograph: Heritage Doncaster

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 by Heritage Doncaster. The collection at Doncaster numbers around 2,000 items including paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs. One area of particular strength is in works by 20th-century British artists including Frank Brangwyn, Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein. A recent addition is Terence Cuneo’s image of the Doncaster Plant Works, Giants Refreshed, which reflects Doncaster’s importance as a centre of locomotive building.

You can see art from Heritage Doncaster on Art UK here. Find out more on its website here.

1. 

   The artist William Shackleton (1872-1933) was born in Bradford. Which famous modern British artist also came from the city?

   1. Anthony Gormley

   2. David Hockney

   3. Maggi Hambling

   4. Damien Hirst

2. 

   In which country was the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema born?

   1. Denmark

   2. Norway

   3. The Netherlands

   4. Belgium

3. 

   James Northcote was a student of the first president of the Royal Academy, who was he?

   1. Sir Peter Lely

   2. Benjamin West

   3. Sir Joshua Reynolds

   4. Thomas Gainsborough

4. 

   This portrait was painted by an artist better known for his pictures of scientific experiments. Who was he?

   1. Francis Hayman

   2. Joseph Highmore

   3. Richard Wilson

   4. Joseph Wright of Derby

5. 

   This painting shows the Fore Street Methodist Chapel in St Ives. Which national collection has a gallery in St Ives?

   1. National Portrait Gallery

   2. British Museum

   3. Victoria & Albert Museum

   4. Tate

6. 

   The Scottish Colourist Francis Cadell is known for his paintings of a Scottish island. Which one is it?

   1. Mull

   2. Iona

   3. Skye

   4. Bute

7. 

   Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a part of the Vorticist movement. What was their magazine called?

   1. BLAST

   2. BANG

   3. WHIZZ

   4. WHOOSH

8. 

   The photographs of which English photographer helped to transform the way that artists depicted the galloping horse?

   1. Francis Frith

   2. Julia Margaret Cameron

   3. Eadweard Muybridge

   4. James Robertson

Solutions

1:B - William Shackleton was born in Bradford, the son of a paper manufacturer. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School then studied art at Bradford Technical College. He went on to the National Art Training School (later renamed The Royal College of Art), and gained a British Institute Scholarship, enabling him to study in Paris and in Italy. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1910 and 1922. Image: The Eternal Dream, c.1924, William Shackleton (1872-1933), Heritage Doncaster, 2:C - This charming portrait is probably of Alma-Tadema’s second wife, Laura Theresa Epps. Epps was an artist in her own right, specialising in domestic and genre scenes of women and children. She exhibited a number of her paintings at the Royal Academy as well as at the Paris Salon. Following her death in 1910 a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in London. Image: Reverie: Far Away Thoughts, 1874, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), Heritage Doncaster, 3:C - Northcote was born in Plymouth, Devon. Initially apprenticed as a watchmaker, in 1769 he left for London and was admitted as a pupil in the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Further study took place in Italy. His portraits are indebted to his master Reynolds, while his history paintings reflect the Romantic style that was becoming fashionable at the time. Northcote was also an author and published books on Reynolds and Titian. Image: Fruit Girl, James Northcote (1746-1831), Heritage Doncaster, 4:D - Joseph Wright of Derby painted Elizabeth Pigot (1726-1766) in 1760. She was the daughter of William Brooke, a three-time mayor of Doncaster. In 1758 she married William Pigot, and between then and her death eight years later she gave birth to six children. At the time of the painting Elizabeth was 34, and befitting her status as the wife of a wealthy dealer in fabric she is presented in a fashionable dress of pale grey silk. Image: Elizabeth Pigot (1726-1766), 1760, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), Heritage Doncaster, 5:D - From 1887, Titcomb lived near St Ives in Cornwall, where he made paintings of the local people. This painting of the Primitive Methodist Chapel on Fore Street in St Ives is one of a number the artist made on the theme of the importance of religion in the lives of fisher folk. The picture was donated to Heritage Doncaster by the artist’s wife, Jessie Ada Morison, who was also an artist. Image: The Mariner’s Sunday School, 1897, William Holt Yates Titcomb (1858-1930), Heritage Doncaster , 6:B - From about 1912 until at least 1933, Francis Cadell visited the island of Iona virtually every summer, where he produced seascapes and landscapes. Iona had particular attractions for the artist; the ever-changing weather, azure seas and pristine beaches were the perfect subject for his simple, lyrical landscape style. Image: Portrait of a Young Man, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937), Heritage Doncaster, 7:A - Although largely self-taught, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was one of the most important avant-garde artists working in Britain in the early years of the 20th century. He was among a number of signatories to the Vorticist manifesto, which was published in BLAST on 2 July 1914. Other artists who signed the manifesto included Ezra Pound, Edward Wadsworth and Helen Saunders. Image: Scene amoureuse, 1913-14, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), Heritage Doncaster, 8:C - Before the invention of photography, the convention for showing a horse at full gallop was the classic rocking horse posture seen in this painting by JF Herring. Muybridge’s sequence of photographs of a horse running established that when a horse is completely off the ground, its legs are collected beneath the body, and not extended out to the front and back. Image: Finish of the 1827 Gold Cup, 1827, John Frederick Herring I (1795-1865), Heritage Doncaster

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   Wow! You should receive the keys to Doncaster for this result

2. 7 and above.

   Wow! You should receive the keys to Doncaster for this result

3. 6 and above.

   Pretty good – you know your galloping horses from your Vorticists

4. 5 and above.

   Pretty good – you know your galloping horses from your Vorticists

5. 4 and above.

   Not bad – you know your galloping horses from your Vorticists

6. 3 and above.

   Oh dear. Have you never been to Yorkshire?

7. 2 and above.

   Oh dear. Have you never been to Yorkshire?

8. 0 and above.

   Oh dear. Have you never been to Yorkshire?

9. 1 and above.

   Oh dear. Have you never been to Yorkshire?