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Dulwich Picture Gallery - Quiz
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  • 1. Who became the director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in April 2017?
A) Jennifer Scott
B) Giles Waterfield
C) Desmond Shawe-Taylor
D) Ian A.C. Dejardin
  • 2. How many paintings by Rembrandt are in the Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) 5 paintings
B) 1 painting
C) 3 paintings
D) 12 paintings
  • 3. Which artist has the most paintings from the Dutch School at the gallery?
A) Rembrandt with 3 paintings
B) Aelbert Cuyp with 11 paintings
C) Adriaen van Ostade with 5 paintings
D) Philip Wouwerman with 12 paintings
  • 4. How many paintings by Thomas Gainsborough are in the collection?
A) 3 paintings
B) 1 painting
C) 9 paintings
D) 7 paintings
  • 5. Who was the director of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1996 to 2005?
A) Ian A.C. Dejardin
B) Jennifer Scott
C) Desmond Shawe-Taylor
D) Giles Waterfield
  • 6. Which artist from the Flemish School has 19 paintings in the gallery?
A) Peter Paul Rubens with 10 paintings
B) Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger with 1 painting
C) David Teniers the Younger
D) Anthony van Dyck with 5 paintings
  • 7. How many paintings by Joshua Reynolds are in the Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) 9 paintings
B) 7 paintings
C) 3 paintings
D) 1 painting
  • 8. Which Italian artist has 4 paintings in the collection?
A) Canaletto with 2 paintings
B) Sebastiano Ricci with 2 paintings
C) Raphael with 2 paintings
D) Annibale Carracci
  • 9. Who was the director of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1979 to 1996?
A) Desmond Shawe-Taylor
B) Jennifer Scott
C) Giles Waterfield
D) Ian A.C. Dejardin
  • 10. How many paintings by Claude Lorrain are in the gallery?
A) 4 paintings
B) 6 paintings
C) 2 paintings
D) 1 painting
  • 11. Which artist from the English School has 9 paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) William Hogarth with 2 paintings
B) Thomas Gainsborough with 7 paintings
C) John Constable with 1 painting
D) Joshua Reynolds
  • 12. How many paintings by Nicolas Poussin are in the collection?
A) 1 painting
B) 4 paintings
C) 6 paintings
D) 2 paintings
  • 13. Which Spanish artist has 4 paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
B) No other Spanish artists are listed
C) There is no other Spanish artist with 4 paintings
D) Spanish School only has Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
  • 14. How many paintings by Aelbert Cuyp are in the gallery?
A) 1 painting
B) 5 paintings
C) 12 paintings
D) 11 paintings
  • 15. Which French artist has 6 paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) Jean-Honoré Fragonard with 1 painting
B) Claude-Joseph Vernet
C) Gaspard Dughet with 4 paintings
D) Nicolas Poussin with 6 paintings
  • 16. How many paintings by Jean-Antoine Watteau are in the collection?
A) 4 paintings
B) 2 paintings
C) 6 paintings
D) 1 painting
  • 17. In which year was the Dulwich Picture Gallery officially opened to the public?
A) 1820
B) 1807
C) 1817
D) 1795
  • 18. Who designed the Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) Sir John Soane
B) Noël Desenfans
C) Francis Bourgeois
D) Edward Alleyn
  • 19. What is notable about the architecture of the Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) Its modernist elements
B) Its innovative use of natural light
C) Its Baroque design
D) Its Gothic style
  • 20. Which foundation established by Edward Alleyn originally included the Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) Dulwich College
B) The College of God's Gift
C) James Allen's Girls' School
D) Alleyn's School
  • 21. When did the Dulwich Picture Gallery become an independent charitable trust?
A) 1817
B) 1795
C) 1807
D) 1994
  • 22. Who bequeathed a collection of works including portraits of the kings and queens of England to the College of God's Gift?
A) Noël Desenfans
B) Edward Alleyn
C) John Philip Kemble
D) Sir Francis Bourgeois
  • 23. Which Polish king commissioned Bourgeois and Desenfans to assemble a national collection for Poland?
A) Jogaila
B) Casimir III the Great
C) Bolesław I the Brave
D) Stanisław August Poniatowski
  • 24. What was the original purpose of Edward Alleyn's Manor of Dulwich?
A) To create a botanical garden
B) To build a theatre
C) To found a college for boys and almshouses for the local poor
D) To establish an art gallery
  • 25. What did Horace Walpole describe seeing at the Dulwich Gallery in the 18th century?
A) Modern British paintings
B) A hundred mouldy portraits among apostles, sibyls and kings of England
C) Contemporary abstract art
D) A collection of Renaissance sculptures
  • 26. Which cultural figure mentioned the Dulwich Picture Gallery in their novel?
A) George Eliot
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) Jane Austen
  • 27. Who were the founders credited with improving the Dulwich collection in size and quality?
A) Horace Walpole and Charles Dickens
B) John Constable and William Turner
C) Sir Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans
D) Edward Alleyn and John Philip Kemble
  • 28. What was the original use of the first floor of the wing of the Old College where the collection was displayed?
A) Displaying the art collection
B) Housing students
C) Storing books
D) Conducting lectures
  • 29. Which schools are beneficiaries of the College of God's Gift?
A) Dulwich College, Alleyn's School, and James Allen's Girls' School
B) Royal Academy of Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, and Goldsmiths University
C) Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University
D) Cambridge University, Oxford University, and University of London
  • 30. What is the listing status of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and its mausoleum?
A) Grade III on the National Heritage List for England
B) Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England
C) Not listed
D) Grade I on the National Heritage List for England
  • 31. Who inherited Desenfans' collection after his death in 1807?
A) John Philip Kemble
B) Edward Alleyn
C) Stanisław August Poniatowski
D) Francis Bourgeois
  • 32. Which artists frequented the Dulwich Picture Gallery as students?
A) Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello
B) Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, and Frida Kahlo
C) John Constable, William Etty, Joseph Mallord William Turner, and Vincent van Gogh
D) Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer, and Goya
  • 33. What was the original purpose of the mausoleum designed by Sir John Soane?
A) For students of the Royal Academy of Arts
B) For Edward Alleyn and his family
C) For founders of the collection, Francis Bourgeois and Noël Desenfans
D) For visitors to the gallery
  • 34. Who was sentenced to prison for the 1966 theft at Dulwich Picture Gallery?
A) John Bodkin Adams
B) Charles Hewett
C) Michael Hall
D) Detective Inspector Morse
  • 35. In what year was Rembrandt's Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III last stolen?
A) 1966
B) 2019
C) 1983
D) 1995
  • 36. Which architecture practice won the Dulwich Pavilion competition?
A) BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
B) IF_DO
C) Zaha Hadid Architects
D) Norman Foster + Partners
  • 37. When did Dulwich Picture Gallery reopen after the pandemic closure?
A) March 2022
B) June 2019
C) December 2020
D) May 2021
  • 38. Which artist had their first major UK exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery since 1950 in spring 2023?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Claude Monet
C) Berthe Morisot
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 39. In what year did Charles Fairfax Murray first donate a group of 40 pictures to the gallery?
A) 1911
B) 1944
C) 1836
D) 2000
  • 40. What material did Sir John Soane use for the gallery's façade, differing from many contemporary architects?
A) Marble
B) Limestone
C) Uninterrupted raw brick
D) Stucco porticos
  • 41. Who reopened Dulwich Picture Gallery after its refurbishment in 1953?
A) Charles Barry Jr.
B) Queen Elizabeth II
C) Austin Vernon
D) The Queen Mother
  • 42. What event in 1944 caused damage to the mausoleum and west wing galleries?
A) A fire
B) A flood
C) An earthquake
D) A German V1 flying-bomb
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