Artist
Thomas Bacon
b. 1773
Thomas Bacon is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
British watercolourists in the early 1800s turned rugged terrain into quiet drama, and Thomas Bacon painted it with steady hands. His Mountainous Landscape with Stream and Ruin (1830) balances jagged peaks against a mossy castle ruin, where a silver stream cuts through shadowed banks. Bacon stayed close to home; every crag and copse feels like the north of England, where limestone meets rushing water. Next, step into the damp light of that same stream—still running in Mountainous Landscape with Stream and Ruin.
Works by Thomas Bacon
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.