John Henry Frederick Bacon

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John Henry Frederick Bacon

portraits.[1]

Life and work

Born in Kennington on 4 November 1865,

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On his return to England, in 1889, Bacon exhibited The Village Green and Nevermore at the Royal Academy and was a regular exhibitor from then on. He was a successful painter of religious works, such as Peace be unto you (1897), Gethsemane (1899);

Royal Academy (ARA) and was awarded the MVO (Member of the Royal Victorian Order) for distinguished service to the King.[1]
Bacon illustrated books as well as magazines and periodicals.

Bacon married in 1894 and took up residence at "Pillar House" in Harwell, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). He had 7 children. He died of acute bronchitis on 24 January 1914, aged 48.[6]

Selected works

Illustrated books (selected)

  • Harden, Beatrice. Things Will Take a Turn (1894)
  • Clarke, H. The Ravensworth Scholarship (1895)
  • Craik, Mrs. John Halifax, Gentleman (1899)
  • Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son and Little Dorrit. (1902)
  • Everett-Green, Evelyn. Priscilla (1900)
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter and the House of the Seven Gables (1904)
  • Fitcher, W. H. The King's Empire (1906)
  • Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown's School Days (1906)
  • Ebbutt, Maud Isabel. Hero-myths & Legends of the British Race (New York: T.Y. Crowell & Company, 1910).
  • Squire, Charles. Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry & Romance (London: Gresham).
  • Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit (Gresham, 1912)
  • Everett-Green, Evelyn. Esther's Charge (1912)
  • Nesbit, E. and Doris Ashley. Children's Stories from English History (1914)

Illustrated periodicals (selected)

Black and White, Cassell's Family Magazine, The Girl's Own Paper, The Ludgate Monthly, The Quiver, The Windsor Magazine.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Obituary (The Connoisseur, volume 38, 1914).
  2. ^ General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empiree, Burke's Peerage Limited, 1914, p. 2151
  3. ^ See Jesus Christ at Gethsemene (from W. S. Sparrow's The Gospels in art, 1904, p. 232).
  4. National Portrait Gallery
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  5. ^ Coronation of George V.
  6. ^ J H F Bacon (Harwell Village Website).
  7. ^ "Liverpool museums - 'The Wedding Morning', John Henry Frederick Bacon". www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

External links

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