Artist

John Deakin

Portrait of John Deakin

English

John Deakin is an English artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Deakin was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle. Bacon based a number of famous paintings on photographs he commissioned from Deakin, including Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, Henrietta Moraes on a Bed and Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

Collections represented

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