Sir Nathaniel Bacon
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SIR NATHANIEL BACON 1585-1627
A wealthy landowner from East Anglia, Bacon was an exceptionally skilful amateur painter. Only a small group of his paintings survive. He was particularly known for his kitchen and market scenes, dominated by still-life depictions of large vegetables and fruit, often accompanied by a buxom maid. The most well known of which being The Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit(Tate Gallery London). This predilection for cook or market scenes is much more common among Dutch and Flemish painters, see for example Joachim Beuckelaer (1533–1574). He is credited with the first known British landscape. He was Knighted in 1626 and died at the early age of 42.
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- The Cookmaid with Still Life in the Tate Collection
