#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | ART MOVEMENTS $1200: In the 18th century British architects began a revival of this medieval style, pointed arches & all Gothic |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | ART, OF WAR $800: Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda Singapore |
#8554, aired 2022-01-13 | MODERN ART $1600: In 1995 conceptual artist Damien Hirst won the Turner Prize awarded by this British group of "Galleries" the Tate |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $200: In the 1840s this British queen got a court injunction to prevent family sketches she had made from being published Queen Victoria |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $5,000 (Daily Double): Asked for a nativity scene, British artist Edward Burne-Jones produced an 8 x 12 foot watercolor "Star of" this city Bethlehem |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | WOMEN ARTISTS $1200: In the '60s British painter Bridget Riley was a leader of this movement that played tricks on your eyes Op art |
#7660, aired 2017-12-22 | SCULPTURE $2000: Paul Cezanne's art such as "Large Bathers" featuring reclining nudes was a major influence on this British sculptor Henry Moore |
#7622, aired 2017-10-31 | ART $2000: One of this British sculptor's large reclining figures can be seen in a reflecting pool at Lincoln Center Henry Moore |
#7230, aired 2016-02-05 | WORLD ART $1200: Graffiti artist Pavel Pukhov, aka "Pasha 183", was known as the "Russian" this British artist Banksy |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | EMMY: THE WOMEN $800: Emmy Bridgewater was a leading British exponent of this art style that (ironically) derives from French for "super real" surrealism |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | A GLOBAL CATEGORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In central London, the British National Gallery of Art, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Charing Cross, &, of course, a famous column are found on this square Trafalgar Square |
#7094, aired 2015-06-18 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $1600: This 19th century British painter, a master of light & atmosphere, was the subject of a 2014 biopic Turner |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: "The Bloody-Shouldered Arabian" was one of many of these animals depicted by 18th c. artist John Wootton horse |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the J. Paul Getty Museum.) In the 1770s, Thomas Gainsborough painted a portrait of this friend, the founder of a London auction house; he's leaning against 1 of the artist's own paintings & is holding what is probably an auction list (James) Christie |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1200: We wonder if this acclaimed artist, a grandson of Sigmund, liked to psychoanalyze his subjects as well as paint them Lucian Freud |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: Hoping to revive the style of early Italian artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti helped found the Pre-this Brotherhood Raphaelite |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: Sir George Frampton's most famous work is a sculpture of this kiddy lit character in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan |
#6808, aired 2014-04-02 | 19th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $2000: Between 1819 & 1825 this British landscape artist painted a series of 6 scenes on the River Stour (John) Constable |
#6798, aired 2014-03-19 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: The British painter & engraver Gainsborough DuPont was the nephew & assistant of this artist Thomas Gainsborough |
#6043, aired 2010-12-15 | ART $400: In Britain the last name of this British painter (1776-1837) means "police officer" (John) Constable |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: In Richard Wilson's 1760s work "Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle", Snowdon is a lofty one of these a mountain |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Henry Fuseli painted this literary character, whose father said, "My story would make your hair stand on end" Hamlet |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1200: This contemporary artist's paintings of California swimming pools include "A Bigger Splash" & "Day Pool with 3 Blues" David Hockney |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $2000: This series of 8 Hogarth paintings, beginning with "The Heir", tells the story of a young man's path of vice & self-destruction A Rake's Progress |
#5968, aired 2010-07-21 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1768 this portraitist was unanimously elected President of the Royal Academy; he was knighted in 1769 Sir Joshua Reynolds |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $2000: This British landscape painter financed his wedding with the painting seen here--note all the clouds John Constable |
#5805, aired 2009-12-04 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: In 1824 this British landscape painter's "The Hay Wain" received a gold medal at the Paris Salon John Constable |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | ART HISTORY $800: In "Mr. and Mrs. Andrews", a double portrait by this British painter, it's the young woman who wears blue Gainsborough |
#5702, aired 2009-05-26 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $2000: Joseph Smith, British consul in Venice, was a patron of this mid-17th century view painter Canaletto |
#5564, aired 2008-11-13 | ART $1200: This British artist, known for a famous "Boy", gave us the girl seen here Gainsborough |
#5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: The aptly named Terry Frost created a painting called this season of the year "1956, Yorkshire" Winter |
#5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: John Hoppner, a favorite royal portrait artist of the late 1700s, was rumored to be an illegitimate son of this king George III |
#5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: You can barely make out the elephants in J.M.W. Turner's painting of this man "Crossing the Alps" Hannibal |
#5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: A 1790s engraving by Robert Dodd shows this "bountiful" captain & some of his officers being set adrift Captain Bligh |
#5478, aired 2008-06-04 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: This contemporary Brit has long been in the swim with paintings such as "Peter Getting Out Of Nick's Pool" (David) Hockney |
#5322, aired 2007-10-30 | 17th CENTURY ART $400: Though he was Flemish, van Dyck is best known for the portraits he did in this British city in the 1630s London |
#5237, aired 2007-05-22 | "F"INE ART $2000: Feel free to psychoanalyze the work by this current German-born British painter Lucian Freud |
#5114, aired 2006-11-30 | MUSEUMS $1600: The Turner Prize, named for British painter J.M.W., was founded by a group trying to buy art for this London gallery Tate |
#5087, aired 2006-10-24 | ART & ARTISTS $1600: One of the 2 great British landscape masters born 14 months apart in 1775 & '76 (1 of) Constable & Turner |
#4969, aired 2006-03-30 | ART $1600: This "Rake's Progress" satirist was a British patriot, as seen in his 1748 work "O the Roast Beef of Old England" (William) Hogarth |
#4930, aired 2006-02-03 | EYES ON THE PRIZE $1000: This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art the Tate Gallery |
#4883, aired 2005-11-30 | MATTERS OF THE ART $1000: This group of British painters exhibited anonymously, signing their paintings PRB the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
#4782, aired 2005-05-24 | BRITISH BUSINESS $800: This art book publisher took its name from the rivers flowing through London & New York City Thames & Hudson |
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 | ART "C" $3,600 (Daily Double): This 19th century British landscape artist painted "Cloud Studies" & "The Haywain" John Constable |
#4410, aired 2003-11-07 | WHERE FOR ART? $1600: The ancient sculptures seen here are housed controversially at this museum the British Museum |
#4285, aired 2003-03-28 | THE 19th CENTURY $1600: In 1851 Queen Victoria opened this "Great" showcase of British art & industry The Great Exhibition |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $400: John Opie, the "Cornish Wonder", was tutored but hyped as an unschooled genius in this capital in 1781 London |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $800: Thomas Sully left England for America as a child but returned in the 1830s to paint this queen Victoria |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $1200: George Romney painted the lovely Lady Hamilton as this sorceress who turned men into swine Circe |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $2000: Here's the "Hole" truth: a retrospective of his sculpture at MoMA in 1946 firmly established his reputation Henry Moore |
#4240, aired 2003-01-24 | BRITISH ART $2,200 (Daily Double): Seen here, "The Age of Innocence" is one of many charming paintings by this great 18th century portrait artist Sir Joshua Reynolds |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | ART & ARTISTS $400: This British abstract sculptor of "Madonna and Child" drew Londoners in the Underground during the blitz Henry Moore |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | HISTORY IN ART $2000: His surrender at Yorktown was the subject of a famous painting by John Trumbull Cornwallis |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: The aptly-named Terry Frost created a painting called this season of the year "1956, Yorkshire" winter |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Fittingly, this woman holds a Tudor rose in the portrait by Nicholas Hilliard seen here Queen Elizabeth I |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $600: William Hodges journeyed to the south Pacific as an artist to this captain & painted the portrait of him seen here Captain James Cook |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: John Hoppner, a favorite royal portrait artist of the late 1700s, was rumored to be an illegitimate son of this king George III |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: This contemporary Brit has long been in the swim with paintings such as "Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool" David Hockney |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $200: Briton Riviere was lionized for his painting of this man "In The Lions' Den" Daniel |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $400: Using the alias Phiz, H.K. Browne was the original illustrator of "Bleak House" & many other works by this author Charles Dickens |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $800: His sister Frances Reynolds also painted; he said of her works, "They make other people laugh and me cry" Sir Joshua Reynolds |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): He painted his own daughters chasing a butterfly in the portrait seen here; neither is wearing blue Thomas Gainsborough |
#3835, aired 2001-04-13 | BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Artist George Romney thought this beautiful lady was quite an eyeful; so did Lord Nelson Lady Hamilton |
#3774, aired 2001-01-18 | WHERE FOR ART $600: It claims on its website to have "The Largest Collection of Ancient Egyptian Material Outside Cairo" The British Museum |
#3074, aired 1998-01-01 | ART $1000: Beginning in 1728, this British satirist painted a scene from "The Beggar's Opera" in several versions (William) Hogarth |
#2986, aired 1997-09-01 | ART & ARTISTS $800: "The Hay Wain" helped this British landscape artist win a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 John Constable |
#2936, aired 1997-05-12 | ART $800: Now in the British Museum, the sculptures known as these marbles once adorned the Parthenon Elgin marbles |
#2931, aired 1997-05-05 | SCULPTURE $1000: Toronto's City Hall has an outdoor work by this British sculptor known for using holes in his art Henry Moore |
#2825, aired 1996-12-06 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: You can see this British sculptor's "Reclining Mother and Child" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis Henry Moore |
#2771, aired 1996-09-23 | ART & ARTISTS $1000: This L.A.-based British artist has produced photocollages like "Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986" David Hockney |
#2609, aired 1995-12-28 | ART $600: 14 years after he painted his mother, he was elected president of the Society of British Artists Whistler |
#2526, aired 1995-09-04 | LONDON LANDMARKS $400: Opened in 1897, this gallery of modern British art was named for a sugar merchant Tate Gallery |
#2498, aired 1995-06-14 | ART $100: Robert Streeter is best-known for his painted ceiling in the Sheldonian Theatre at this British university Oxford |
#2462, aired 1995-04-25 | KEN-FOLK $400: In 1969 this British art historian brought "Civilisation" to TV Kenneth Clark |
#2461, aired 1995-04-24 | ART $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1732 this British engraver & satirist created a series of prints called "A Harlot's Progress" William Hogarth |
#1995, aired 1993-04-16 | ART $1000: In 1986 a Kansas City- based foundation bought almost 60 pieces by this 20th century British sculptor Henry Moore |
#1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Later to compete with Sotheby's, this art auction house opened in London in 1766 Christie's |
#1717, aired 1992-02-04 | MUSEUMS $200: In 1805 Napoleon ordered the completion of this museum to house the art looted by his armies the Louvre |
#1528, aired 1991-04-03 | BRITISH ROYALTY $200: This beautiful princess became president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1989 Princess Di |
#1520, aired 1991-03-22 | ART $400: The highly controversial Elgin Marbles are on display in this museum the British Museum |
#651, aired 1987-06-08 | ART $1000: It was founded in 1753 after botanist Sir Hans Sloane willed his collections to his nation the British Museum |
#541, aired 1987-01-05 | ART $600: Mode of transportation represented in 19th cent. British artist J.M.W. Turner's "Rain, Steam, & Speed" train |
#96, aired 1985-01-21 | THE MIDDLE EAST $1000: Country that was formerly the British colony of Aden Yemen |
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