Armada Portrait
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The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England is the name of any of three surviving versions of an allegorical panel painting depicting the Tudor queen surrounded by symbols of royal majesty against a
Elizabeth I
National Portrait Gallery version
The "Drake" version, now at Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich
Spanish Armada
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, and was the largest engagement of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War. The Armada was commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke
Armada Portrait
…of an allegorical panel painting depicting the Tudor queen surrounded by symbols of royal majesty against a backdrop representing the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The combination of a life-sized portrait of Elizabeth I with a landscape format is "quite unprecedented in her portraiture", although allegorical…
Route of the Spanish Armada
Philip II of Spain c. 1580, National Portrait Gallery, London
Queen Elizabeth I c. 1585, Trinity College, Cambridge
The Surrender of Pedro de Valdés (commander of the Squadron of Andalusia) to Francis Drake aboard the Revenge during the attack of the Spanish Armada, 1588, by John Seymour Lucas