Admiral Blake and the Spanish Priest at Malaga


This painting by Arthur David McCormick juxtaposes the Protestant English Admiral with his Catholic Spanish adversaries. Blake became the scourge of the Spanish as the Parliamentary forces sought to limit the extent of this venerable Catholic power and one of England's oldest adversaries.


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