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Study for Portrait II, 1955.Tate Britain, London. Study for Portrait II (subtitled after the Life Mask of William Blake) is a small 1955 oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, one of a series of six portraits completed after viewing that year the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake's (b. 1757) life mask at the National Portrait Gallery ...
When Bacon died in 1992, John Edwards, Bacon's friend to whom he left his estate, also asked Shenstone to produce a cloth head portrait of himself to hang next to Bacon and Janet. [2] The National Portrait Gallery in London hold examples of Shenstone's sketches of Bacon.
Bacon, John Henry Frederick, 1868–1914 Archived 6 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine (Art UK) Photo of J H F Bacon (National Portrait Gallery) J H F Bacon Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (short biography) Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections; J. H. Bacon at Library of Congress, with 3 library catalogue records
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The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans.
Study for a Portrait March 1991 (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh) [82] Triptych 1991 (Oil on linen, 198.1 x 147.6 cm (78 x 57 in), Museum of Modern Art , New York City) ( large triptych ) [ 83 ]
Attributed to Nathaniel Bacon, The artist's wife, Jane Bacon, Lady Cornwallis, née Meautys, ca. 1614-1617 He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, who was the elder brother of the leading politician and philosopher Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam), [1] and so with connections to the political elite of late Elizabethan England.
One of the most notable was Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorn Standing in a Street in Soho, 1967. Deakin's photos of George Dyer, Muriel Belcher and Henrietta Moraes have also been associated with Bacon's paintings of these sitters. [17] In February 2012, Bacon's 1963 Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, based on Deakin's photo, sold for £21.3 million.