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Sir Nathaniel Bacon KB (1585–1627) was a painter, landowner and horticulturist from Culford, Suffolk, England.

Art

Bacon was particularly known for his kitchen and market scenes, dominated by still-life depictions of large vegetables and fruit, often accompanied by a buxom maid, the most well known being "The Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit" (Tate Gallery London). This predilection for cook or market scenes is much more common among Dutch and Flemish painters, see for example Joachim Beuckelaer, or from a later generation, Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, and Cornelis Jacobsz Delff. Only nine of Bacon's paintings were thought to survive[1] until a portrait in Government House, Sydney was identified as a portrait of his wife, Jane, Lady Cornwallis.[2][3]

Bacon is credited with the first known British landscape,[4][5][6] and also painted several self-portraits[7][8] and a number of other portraits. He was created a Knight of the Bath[9] in 1625, in honour of the Coronation of Charles I.

Personal life

He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, who was the elder brother of the leading politician and philosopher Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam),[1][10] and so with connections to the political elite of late Elizabethan England.

In 1613 or 1614, Bacon married Jane Cornwallis (née Meautys), the widow of Sir William Cornwallis, and mother of Frederick Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis.[1][11] Bacon died at Culford Hall (now rebuilt and renamed as Culford Park) at the age of 42. He was buried there on 1 July 1627. Their daughter, Jane, aged three years, died that same October, and is buried alongside her father. The entries of their burials follow each other in the Culford Parish Burial Register. Their daughter Anne Bacon married Sir Thomas Meautys in 1639.

Anne Bacon, Lady Drury, was his sister, and it is believed he may have had some influence on the remarkable series of small paintings which make up Lady Drury's Closet.

Bacon is commemorated at St Mary's Church, Culford with a monument by the sculptor Nicholas Stone. In June 1628 Bacon's brother Sir Edmund Bacon saw it being made at Stone's workshop in London's Long Acre, and noted "My brother's monument goes well forward, I saw it so much as is done, the day before I came own of town".[12]

References

External links

• 3 artworks by or after Nathaniel Bacon at the Art UK site
• The Cookmaid with Still Life in the Tate Collection
• Monument to Nathaniel Bacon at Culford Church, by Nicolas Stone

На других языках

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- [en] Nathaniel Bacon (painter)

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[fr] Nathaniel Bacon (peintre)

Nathaniel Bacon, né en 1585 à Culford près de Bury St Edmunds et mort en 1627, chevalier du Bain, est un peintre et propriétaire terrien anglais ayant vécu dans le Suffolk.

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[it] Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon, o Sir Nathaniel Bacon o Nathaniel Bacon of Culford[1] (agosto 1585 – Gorhambury, 1º luglio 1627 (sepolto a Culford)), è stato un pittore inglese, fratellastro[1] o nipote[2] del famoso filosofo Francis Bacon e amico di Henry Peacham[2].

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