Awarded the first gold medal for sculpture by the Royal Academy in 1769. Other works: Samuel Johnson (1796) in St Paul's Cathedral. 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. Educated at Southwark College of Art and Design. He has produced many sculptures for films and television programmes.
Born Derbyshire. His website has many photos of his work at Fulham Palace.
Sculptor and medallist. Born Frankfurt, Germany. From the very informative West Hampstead Life: "Fritz was fourteen when he began an apprenticeship in a workshop specializing in decorative sculptu...
Born in what is now Croatia. Worked in Vienna and Brussels and settled in Britain in 1938. Specialised in Winston Churchill. Our picture shows Nemon with a self-portrait: now that sculpture we woul...
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