Who was this witch's occult rival? 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 over 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 Royal Cornwall Museum, in Truro. The Royal Institution of Cornwall Fine Art Collection has been accumulated over more than 100 years, and includes pieces relevant to Cornwall and its history, as well as pieces by artists studying at the St Ives and Newlyn Schools. The online collection is a small fraction of what the Royal Cornwall Museum holds.

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

It has been suggested that this painting may be a triple portrait of the artist’s three daughters. Which artist?

Anthony Payne was known as the Cornish Giant. How tall was he?

Tamson (Thomasine) Blight was perhaps the most famous of Chapman’s Cornish subjects. Known as the White Witch of Helston, with whom was she known to have had an occult rivalry?

Frederick Smallfield’s painting The Ringers of Launcells Tower was inspired by the poem of the same title by Rev RS Hawker of Morwenstow. He had previously depicted this image in a different medium. What was it?

This painting is perhaps the most well-loved of the Royal Institution of Cornwall’s fine art collection. Sherwood Hunter painted the procession celebrating the jubilee of Queen Victoria. Which jubilee was it?

With which painter did Harold Harvey partner to establish a school in Newlyn in 1920?

Ernest Procter Ernest Procter was Harvey’s closest friend. Harvey’s work developed over time, having originally resembled that of Stanhope Forbes. He and his contemporaries, Ernest and Dod Procter, later had comparable styles, though Harvey’s work did not take on the same Picasso influences, forging the partnership between Ernest and Harold. Harvey’s work depicted the working people of the Penzance area, including miners, fisherman and the clay workers seen in The Clay Pit. Image: The Clay Pit, 1923, Harold C Harvey (1874–1941), Royal Institution of Cornwall.

Bryan Pearce’s paintings were focused on the places and people in his home town, where he lived all his life. Where was this?

Henry Scott Tuke was known for his en plein air nudes, but was also a prolific painter of what subject?

You got…

Oh dear, your occult powers have failed you

Oh dear, your occult powers have failed you

Oh dear, your occult powers have failed you

Oh dear, your occult powers have failed you

Not bad – maybe treat yourself to a pasty

Not bad – maybe treat yourself to a pasty

Not bad – maybe treat yourself to a pasty

Well done! Consider yourself a 7ft giant of this art quiz

Well done! Consider yourself a 7ft giant of this art quiz

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