Sir Nathaniel Bacon 1640-1676 wealthy landowner Suffolk England. Nathaniel Bacon, engravingBacon was an exceptionally skillful


Sir Nathaniel Bacon 1640-1676 wealthy landowner Suffolk England. Nathaniel Bacon, engravingBacon was an exceptionally skillful amateur painter and gardener. Only a small group of his paintings survive. He 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 of which 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 (1533–1574). Bacon is credited with the first known British landscape. and also painted a self-portrait and a number of other was knighted in 1625. He died at the age of 42. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet.


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