Life in the UK Test Practice Question · Ho & Duck: Add-on — Chapter 4.5 Extra Topics
The Turner Prize, a contemporary art award, is named after which influential landscape painter?
A) Thomas Gainsborough
B) Hans Holbein
C) Joseph Turner
D) Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Correct answer: Joseph Turner
Joseph Turner was an influential landscape painter, and the Turner Prize (a contemporary art award) is named after him.
Related handbook facts
Hans Holbein and Sir Anthony Van Dyck were foreign-born painters who worked in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thomas Gainsborough was a well-known 18th-century portrait painter, Joseph Turner (after whom the Turner Prize is named) was an influential landscape painter, and John Constable was famous for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale on the Suffolk-Essex border.