#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |