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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. He was now going to open ...
In 1869, she married Dr. Francis Bacon, a family friend and surgeon who had served in the Union army during the war. The couple resided in New Haven, Connecticut, where Woolsey became a co-founder of the Connecticut Children's Aid Society and the Connecticut Training School for Nurses. [5] Woolsey died in January 1906. [2]
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
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.
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions , portraits of popes , self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
Anthony Bacon's more famous younger brother, Francis Bacon, was born three years after him, in 1561. Anthony and his brother spent their early years at York House in the Strand, London . Their mother (who was one of the most educated women of her day, speaking French , Latin , Greek , Spanish , Hebrew and Italian ) oversaw their early education.
Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.
Deakin in an undated photograph, early-mid 1950s. John Deakin (8 May 1912 – 25 May 1972) was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle.