Art Match — Jul 16, 2026

Art Match is a free daily art quiz. Each round puts 3 famous public-domain paintings beside the names of the artists who made them, and asks you to put them back together against the clock. Your solve time goes on that day’s leaderboard.

How to play: tap an artist’s name, then tap their painting — or drag the name straight onto the canvas. A wrong match costs an eight-second penalty, so look before you commit. The tells are in the paint: brushwork, palette, how the artist handles light, and whether the picture was built for a cathedral, a merchant’s parlour or a print shop.

Today’s artists: John Everett Millais, Jacques-Louis David and Johannes Vermeer. The set spans 3 movements, which is the easier mode — when the centuries differ, the styles do half the work for you.

• Realism — turned the easel toward ordinary work and ordinary people, at a scale that had until then been reserved for gods and generals.
• Neoclassical — went back to Greece and Rome for its posture — clean line, sober colour, and moral subjects staged like sculpture.
• Dutch Golden Age — belonged to a merchant class that bought art by the yard, and gave us a century of domestic interiors, sea skies and still lifes painted for ordinary walls.

Every work in the bank is in the public domain and is served from our own copy of the image; each caption links back to the painting’s page on Wikipedia. A new Art Match posts several mornings a week — browse the past Art Matches or find the rest of the free daily games.