diff --git a/test/functional/rpc_createmultisig.py b/test/functional/rpc_createmultisig.py
--- a/test/functional/rpc_createmultisig.py
+++ b/test/functional/rpc_createmultisig.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# Copyright (c) 2015-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2019 The Bitcoin Core developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-"""Test transaction signing using the signrawtransaction* RPCs."""
+"""Test multisig RPCs"""
 
 from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
+from test_framework.util import (
+    assert_raises_rpc_error,
+)
 import decimal
 
 
@@ -18,15 +21,17 @@
 
     def get_keys(self):
         node0, node1, node2 = self.nodes
-        self.add = [node1.getnewaddress() for _ in range(self.nkeys)]
-        self.pub = [node1.getaddressinfo(a)["pubkey"] for a in self.add]
-        self.priv = [node1.dumpprivkey(a) for a in self.add]
+        add = [node1.getnewaddress() for _ in range(self.nkeys)]
+        self.pub = [node1.getaddressinfo(a)["pubkey"] for a in add]
+        self.priv = [node1.dumpprivkey(a) for a in add]
         self.final = node2.getnewaddress()
 
     def run_test(self):
         node0, node1, node2 = self.nodes
 
-        # 50 BCH each, rest will be 25 BCH each
+        self.check_addmultisigaddress_errors()
+
+        self.log.info('Generating blocks ...')
         node0.generate(149)
         self.sync_all()
 
@@ -38,6 +43,23 @@
 
         self.checkbalances()
 
+    def check_addmultisigaddress_errors(self):
+        self.log.info(
+            'Check that addmultisigaddress fails when the private keys are missing')
+        addresses = [self.nodes[1].getnewaddress(
+            address_type='legacy') for _ in range(2)]
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-5,
+                                'no full public key for address',
+                                lambda: self.nodes[0].addmultisigaddress(nrequired=1,
+                                                                         keys=addresses))
+        for a in addresses:
+            # Importing all addresses should not change the result
+            self.nodes[0].importaddress(a)
+        assert_raises_rpc_error(-5,
+                                'no full public key for address',
+                                lambda: self.nodes[0].addmultisigaddress(nrequired=1,
+                                                                         keys=addresses))
+
     def checkbalances(self):
         node0, node1, node2 = self.nodes
         node0.generate(100)