Greenwich museums launch campaign to secure £10m Armada Portrait which ‘could’ be sold on the open market
Royal Museums Greenwich are attempting to raise £10m to buy a version of The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I. The work currently belongs to descendants of Sir Francis Drake but the institution say that unless the required funds are raised, the painting “could be sold on the open market and even go overseas”.
While it is unusual for a museum to launch a campaign to save a painting for the nation before it ha…