Awarded the first gold medal for sculpture by the Royal Academy in 1769. Other works: Samuel Johnson (1796) in St Paul's Cathedral. Ornamental Passions writes : "John Bacon was the son of a clothworker in Southwark who became rich and famous churning out memorials for churches. Philip Ward-Jackson has written of him: "His great abilities as a sculptor were disagreeably offset by what some saw as a smug and smarmily pious manner."
His second son was John Bacon the Younger.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Bacon the Elder
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Bacon the Elder
Bronze statue erected in 1789 showing the king who had commissioned the rebui...
This statue shows King Billy's horse about to trip over a mole-hill and throw...
Sculptor. Born St Pancras. First woman sculptor of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. List of works and addresses at Mapping of Sculpture.
Sculptor. Trained at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art. Diane J. Gorvin was born in 1956 the elder child of Herbert D. Gorvin (b.1931) and Patricia A. M. Gorvin née Black (b.1936). Her birt...
Born Bermondsey. Andrew Behan's researches have found that when he was baptised on 7 April 1872 at St Mary Newington Church, Lambeth his date of birth was recorded as 3 September 1860. Lots of inte...
Sculptor. Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with the same name, of Irish descent. In London c.1894-8, met and worked with John Singer Sargent. Also worked in Paris c.1...
