3 Part Screen: Imaginary View of Windsor Castle and Virginia Water: the young Queen Victoria Riding with the Prince Consort

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Roland Vivian Pym was born in Cheveley, Suffolk but moved to Kent aged four, after his father inherited the family home. He studied theatre design at Slade School of Art (1928–32) and launched a career as a muralist after winning a competition to decorate a room at Lord’s. Other commissions included works for the Guinness family in England and Ireland. After serving in the War in North Africa, Pym returned to theatre design in London and Paris. In 1953 he decorated the Queen’s retiring room at Westminster Abbey, the screen for which is in the Government Art Collection (GAC 2463). Late in life in the 1990s, he illustrated books for The Folio Society, including ‘Love in a Cold Climate’ (1992). Pym died in Edenbridge, Kent in 2006.

People

Victoria (1819 - 1901), Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) Albert (1819 - 1861)

Places

England, Windsor Castle, Virginia Water, Windsor, Berkshire

Subjects

carriage, horseback, bugle, statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), landscape C20th, decorative art & craft, tree, wing, shell, dog, horse, deer, heron, dragonfly, hill, waterfall, boy, man, woman, girl, ermine, top hat, tassel, feather (fashion accessory), fur, basket, husband, wife, child, flag, Prince, Queen, castle, folly, archway, column, pillar (architectural feature), plinth (represented), fishing net

Materials & Techniques

canvas, hardboard, oil, wood, oil painting, folding screen

Artist

Roland Pym (1920 - 2006)

Title

3 Part Screen: Imaginary View of Windsor Castle and Virginia Water: the young Queen Victoria Riding with the Prince Consort

Date

1953

Medium

3-part folding screen - oil on canvas mounted on hardboard with wood framework

Dimensions

height: 196.50 cm, width: 225.00 cm

Acquisition

Commissioned from the artist, April 1953

Inscription

br (Right Screen): Roland Pym / - 2nd June 1953 -

GAC number

2463