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...
Architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor, medallist and lecturer. He emigrated to the United States where he created architectural sculpture. Born Devon. Studied at the Lambeth School of Art. Mar...
Sculptor. Born and studied in Australia then came to Britain.
Sculptor. Born Brixton, son of the sculptor Robert Lindsey-Clark. He studied at Cheltenham and the City and Guilds School, Kensington. Served as a captain in WW1 but wounded in action receiving a D...
Painter and sculptor especially of animals. Born 88 Queen Anne Street East, Marylebone. Died at home, 18 St John's Wood Road.
Richard Michael Renshaw was born in May 1950 in Holderness, Yorkshire, the second of the three children of Jack Newlove Renshaw (1920-1987) and Helen Rhead Renshaw née Moser (1917-2005). His birth ...
