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

Roland Pym (1920 - 2006)

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

1953

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    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.
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    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