Painting Budleigh history: 1. A view of the Spanish Armada, 1588
Continued from https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2020/07/painting-history.html Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, made to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada, depicted in the background, and now in the Collection of Woburn Abbey. Believed formerly to be by the artist George Gower, the painting is one of three versions. The most recently restored is known as the ‘Drake’ version, on display in the Queen’s House, at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich Following on from my suggestion that there might be scenes from local history which deserve to be painted, it was pointed out that this very thing had been done to record the strafing of Budleigh High Street by an enemy aircraft during World War Two. The painting had been put on public display for Poppy Day and it was featured in the Exmouth Journal of 7 May 2020. Lots more ideas have been suggested, some of them quite fanciful and even bold. But there’s nothing wrong with that. From ...