British Art History

Which picture shows the "carpet page" of a Medieval religious book?

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What painting genre took on a dominant role during the English Renaissance?

• Landscape

• Portraiture

• Still-life

• Conversation piece

Name the author of this portrait, the court painter to Henry VIII.

• George Gower

• Anthony van Dyck

• Peter Paul Rubens

• Hans Holbein the Younger

What was the name of the first professional female British painter?

• Mary Beale

• Emily Mary Osborn

• Julia Margaret Cameron

• Barbara Hepworth

What was the name of the British artist who lobbied for one of the first copyright protection laws in the world?

• Joseph Wright of Derby

• George Stubbs

• Thomas Gainsborough

• William Hogarth

Name the author of this painting.

• Thomas Gainsborough

• George Stubbs

• John Constable

• Joseph Wright of Derby

Choose Thomas Gainsborough's painting which is now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

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What British painter became known for his special use of lighting (chiaroscuro) for dramatic effect (see the painting)?

• John Constable

• Joseph Wright of Derby

• Joseph Mallord William Turner

• William Holman Hunt

Name the author of this painting.

• John Constable

• Joseph Mallord William Turner

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• William Blake

What historic event is depicted in this painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner?

• The Great Fire of London

• The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

• The Gunpowder Treason Plot

• The beginning of the English Revolution