Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Artist| Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year| 1796
Type| Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions| 214.6 cm × 278.1 cm (84.5 in × 109.5 in)
Location| National Maritime Museum, London

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada is a 1796 history painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.[1][2] A battle seascape it depicts the defeat of the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines in 1588, thwarting Philip II's attempt to invade England.

Loutherbourg produced several scenes of British naval victories around this time, when Britain was involved in the French Revolutionary Wars.[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Konstam p.10
2. ^ O'Rourke p.46
3. ^ McIver p 36
4. ^ Royal Museums Greenwich

## Bibliography

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* Konstam, Angus. The Spanish Armada: The Great Enterprise Against England 1588. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
* McIver, Gillian. Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
* O'Rourke, Stephanie. Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Paintings|

* Landscape with Figures and Animals (1763)
* Landscape with Animals (1767)
* Moonlight (1777)
* Warley Camp (1780)
* Dovedale in Derbyshire (1784)
* A View near Matlock, Derbyshire (1785)
* Snowdon from Capel Curig (1787)
* The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1788)
* Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard (1790)
* The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army (1792)
* The Shipwreck (1793)
* The Grand Attack on Valenciennes (1794)
* Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (1795)
* Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1796)
* The Great Fire of London (1797)
* The Battle of Camperdown (1799)
* A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On (1799)
* The Battle of the Nile (1800)
* A Fishing Boat Brought Ashore near Conway Castle (1800)
* Coalbrookdale by Night (1801)
* The Battle of Alexandria (1802)
* The Capture of the Chevrette (1802)
* The Landing of British Troops at Aboukir (1802)
* An Avalanche in the Alps (1803)
* Banditti in a Landscape (1804)
* The Evening Coach (1805)
* The River Wye at Tintern Abbey (1805)

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* Eidophusikon
* Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

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