An unlikely helper contributed to this Millais portrait. Who? 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 by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions come from Perth Museum and Art Gallery, holder of one of the oldest public collections in the UK. The collections formed by the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth were originally housed in a building known as the Marshall Monument, which opened in 1824. This structure now forms part of Perth Museum and Art Gallery, which opened in its current form in 1935. The fine art collection is displayed in changing exhibitions throughout the year.

You can see art from the museum and gallery on Art UK here. Find out more on the collection’s website here.

This is the oldest painting in the collection. It portrays St Bartholomew, who was patron saint of which Guild?

John Duncan Fergusson preferred to use close friends and family members as subjects in his portraits. Who is the sitter in this painting?

This is a painting by Scottish artist Robert Gemmell Hutchison. What is the title of the work?

Despite this being a study of a mother hen and her clutch, Henriëtte Ronner is best known for her portrayals of which type of animal?

This is a portrait by John Everett Millais of his second daughter, Mary. When he left the portrait unattended while going to answer a call, what is the young girl said to have done?

William Dyce painted this image of the seven daughters of Jethro in 1829. Dyce was a devout Christian and a great believer in the use of religious art as a tool for moral instruction. Which artistic group was influenced by his work?

This painting of 1911 is the work of which of the artists known collectively as the Scottish colourists?

In 1893 George Henry, one of the group of painters known as the Glasgow Boys, embarked on a tour to Japan. Which other artist accompanied him?

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Glasgow Boy

Impressionist

Scottish colourist

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