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Who is this dog-loving future monarch? The great British art quiz

The National Portrait Gallery set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some brainteasers

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 the National Portrait Gallery in London, which holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Search more than 215,000 works in the collection online, 150,000 of which, from the 16th century to the present day, are illustrated.

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