This painting may depict the Greyhound model of the company that its artist held shares in, playing on the idea of a chase. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this painting subtitled for the Great Western Railway. A rabbit darts out of the way of a locomotive in the foreground of this 1844 painting.
ANSWER: Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway
[10e] Rain, Steam, and Speed was painted by this English artist whose seascapes include The Slave Ship.
ANSWER: J. M. W. Turner [or Joseph Mallord William Turner]
[10h] Description acceptable. One of Turner’s paintings of this event depicts a bridge at a similar angle as in Rain, Steam and Speed. Augustus Pugin’s most notable commission came in the aftermath of this 1834 event.
ANSWER: burning of the Houses of Parliament [accept The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons; accept anything involving a fire or destruction of the British Parliament buildings or the Palace of Westminster]
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Painting - European 1600-1945> ~20050~ <Editor: Chandler West>