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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1929,.
Photograph: UCL Art Museum
Photograph: UCL Art Museum

Who did this man make enemies with? The great British art quiz

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UCL Art Museum set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed during the coronavirus outbreak – all while answering some fiendish questions

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 University College London. UCL Art Museum’s collection of about 12,000 artworks has its origins as a teaching and research resource tied to the history of the university’s Slade School of Art. Work by prize-winning artists emerging from the Slade over 150 years sits alongside art spanning five centuries that informed their studies. Forty five per cent of the Slade Collections is work by women artists.

You can see art from UCL Art Museum on Art UK here. Find out more on the UCL Art Museum website here.

  1. 1.When Winifred Knights became the first woman artist to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1920, she had already secured the Slade’s annual competition with this painting. How many female students were winners before her?
  2. 2.The year after women gained the right to vote in 1928, Elizabeth Leslie Arnold shared first prize for her disturbing interpretation of a woman overcoming an adversary. Who is the central character?
  3. 3.Euan Uglow won first prize for figure painting in his first year as a student. He would go on to teach at the Slade for many years. What essential studio feature has he included next to the model?
  4. 4.Clare Winsten (née Birnberg), featured in this portrait, would become the only female member of what famous "male-only" artist group?
  5. 5.Craigie Aitchison painted this luminous still life during his second year at the Slade in 1952. What object did he supposedly hide beneath the surface paint?
  6. 6.Little is known about Ivy MacKusick, the student who painted Portrait of a Man in His Shirtsleeves. Even less is known about the sitter! In what year did this prize-winning painting triumph?
  7. 7.Art students traditionally began their training by drawing plaster casts of classical sculptures. The work of which famous sculptor do students continue to encounter every day at UCL?
  8. 8.Slade professor Henry Tonks painted a fictitious meeting between the four founders of UCL for its centenary celebrations in 1926. Which figure was not actually one of the founders?

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