How did ‘Mam Cymru’ dispatch lovers she was bored with? The great British art quiz | Art and design

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 and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. Located in Cardiff’s civic centre, National Museum Cardiff has 24 art galleries that tell the story of art in Wales and Europe. It houses five hundred years of magnificent paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver and ceramics and contemporary art from Wales and across the world, including one of Europe’s best collections of Impressionist art.

You can see art from the collection on Art UK here, and find out more on Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales here.

In this iconic painting by Thomas Jones, the last of the Welsh bards is shown poised on the edge of the cliff, persecuted to his death by Edward I, king of England, and his troops. Who wrote the 1757 poem that inspired this painting?

Hill of Hurdles is a 2010 work by Clare Woods inspired by the landscape around which famous Welsh waterfall?

Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones is reported to have ceremonially buried a tube of paint in his garden. Why?

A well-known eccentric, Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall, Montgomeryshire, married three times. What did his third wife insist he remove from his bedroom before their marriage?

Bridget Riley, whose work Kashan was acquired by Amgueddfa Cymru in 1999, was both the first British artist and the first woman artist to win the International prize for painting at the Venice Biennale. In what year?

The Cardiff-born sculptor Edith Downing is a rare example of a successful female sculptor working in the early 20th century. Following her efforts in 1912, she was awarded a medal. What was this for?

Tudor noblewoman Katheryn of Berain married four times. She had so many children and grandchildren that she is known today as Mam Cymru – the Mother of Wales. According to folklore, how would she dispatch her lovers once she’d tired of them?

Rain, Auvers was one of the last works painted by Vincent van Gogh before he died on 29 July 1890. It entered Amgueddfa Cymru’s collection in 1952, as part of a major bequest by two sisters from mid-Wales renowned for their collection of impressionist and post-impressionist works. What were their names?

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