Bacon, John, the Elder

has biography | a une biographie: English sculptor in the eighteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Admiral George Rodney in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and Charles Cornwallis on the Gurkha Staircase in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London. Bacon also produced a number of memorials in Jamaica for individuals linked to slavery, such as the monument to Francis Rigby Brodbelt in St Catherine’s Parish Church, the monument to Malcom and Eleanor Laing in Kingston Parish Church, and the monument to Rosa Palmer in St James’s Parish Church.
was born | est né: 24 November 1740
died in | est mort par: 4 August 1799
is parent of | est parent de: Bacon, John, the Younger
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: artist

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; The Victorian Web - John Bacon the Elder; The Victoria Web - The Jamaican Commissions of John Bacon the Elder; Legacies of British Slavery - Dr Francis Rigby Brodbelt; Legacies of British Slavery - Malcolm Laing of Kingston, Jamaica; Legacies of British Slavery - Rosa Palmer; Joan Coutu, 'Appendix Four: Eighteenth-and Early-Nineteenth-Century Monuments in North America and the British West Indies', in Jean Coutu, Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), pp. 344-364.

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Statue of King George III, Somerset House

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