Nathaniel Bacon

United Kingdom · 1585–1627

Sir Nathaniel Bacon, was an English painter, landowner and horticulturist from Culford, Suffolk. == 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(identity of such unknown), 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 until a portrait in Government House, Sydney was identified as a portrait of his wife, Jane, Lady Cornwallis. Bacon is credited with the first known British landscape, and also painted several self-portraits and a number of other portraits.

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