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Portrait of Lady Anne Bacon, 1580. Attributed to George Gower. Anne, Lady Bacon (née Cooke; 1527 or 1528 – 27 August 1610) was an English lady and scholar. She made a lasting contribution to English religious literature with her translation from Latin of John Jewel's Apologie of the Anglican Church (1564). She was the mother of Francis Bacon.
The Italianate entry to York House, built around 1626 in Strand, the year of Bacon's death. Francis Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 [13] at York House near Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Great Seal) by his second wife, Anne (Cooke) Bacon, the daughter of the noted Renaissance humanist Anthony Cooke.
Anthony Bacon was born in 1558, the same year that his father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal by Elizabeth I of England. His mother, Anne, was the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke. His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Anthony
Alfred Dodd, in Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story (Rider & Company: London, 1949) says their marriage was political: Bacon had saved himself three years previously from being excommunicated altogether from the public service by his readiness for an engagement with a child of eleven years (Alice Barnham), a commoner .
Anne Bacon Drury; Anthony Bacon (1558–1601) E. Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Redgrave ... Francis Bacon (Ipswich MP) J. Jane Cornwallis; N. Nathaniel Bacon ...
Francis Bacon was born on 28 October 1909 in 63 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin. [4] At that time, all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.His father, Army Captain Anthony Edward "Eddy" Mortimer Bacon, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to an English father and an Australian mother. [5]
In 1639 her daughter Anne Bacon married Thomas Meautys, despite the efforts of Philip Wodehouse who wrote poems to her. [11] Anne later married Harbottle Grimston. Another daughter Jane Bacon died young. She was the grandmother Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis. Jane, Lady Bacon died at Culford on 8 May 1659.
Reflecting on Bacon's tendency to revisit subject matter, Meades observed that "Bacon's auto-plagiarism in areas other than portraiture had less deleterious consequences. Nonetheless the 1988 version (or near copy) of the great 1944 Crucifixion Triptych is the lesser work: it is slicker, more polished and it evinces a greater ease with paint.