The Armada
Roland Pym (b. Cambridgeshire 1920)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1951
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1860 x 3540 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Buckland Abbey, Devon
NT 810049
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Armada by Roland Pym (b. Cambridgeshire 1920), signed bottom right, 1951. the cartographical scene shows the Lord High Admiral, Lord Howard of Effingham and the English attack off Plymouth 21 July, the Nuestra Senora del Rosario captured by Drake and the action off Portland 22 July.
Provenance
Object transferred to National Trust ownership in 2009, previously on loan to Buckland Abbey from Plymouth Museum since 1989.
Marks and inscriptions
Roland Pym (bottom right)
Makers and roles
Roland Pym (b. Cambridgeshire 1920), artist