Artist
John Bacon
John Bacon is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Bacon carved smooth, dignified marble busts and drawings in late 1700s London, where he turned commissions into quiet intimacy—his Unknown elderly man (ca. 1770–1799) sits with calm realism, his lips slightly parted as if the sitter just paused in mid-thought. He also sketched memorial designs for Ann Waring’s monument and roughed out furniture plans in black ink and chalk. Walk from St. Paul’s to Westminster Abbey, where some of his work still stands, then tap Ann Waring’s monument to see how he shaped stone and paper into gentle memorials.
Works by John 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.