Henry Bacon (painter)

Henry Bacon
Signature of Henry Bacon
Born	1839 Haverhill, Massachusetts
Died	1912 Cairo, Sultanate of Egypt
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting

Henry Bacon's 1890 painting Étretat

Henry Bacon (1839 in Haverhill, Massachusetts – 13 March 1912 in Cairo^[1]) was an American painter and author.

Henry A. Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. During the American Civil War, he enlisted in the Union Army on 16 July 1861^[2] and acted as a field artist for Frank Leslie's Weekly while he served as a soldier within the 13th Massachusetts Infantry. Badly wounded at Bull Run, he was discharged on 19 December 1862.^[2]

In 1864, he went to Paris, with his first wife Elizabeth Lord, to study figure painting. He was admitted to the National School of Fine Arts and was one of Alexandre Cabanel's scholars. He went also to Brittany and passing thru Pont-Aven, he fell in love with the place. Back in Paris, he mentioned the place to his friends painters. He is credited to have been the first painter from a long group of painters to come to Pont-Aven including Paul Gaugin. This period is known nowadays as the Pont-Aven School.

Bacon died in Cairo, Egypt in 1912.

Work

• The Departure, Oil on Canvas, 1879

Images

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  The Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts owns The Landing of the Pilgrims., by Henry A. Bacon, 1877
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  Obelisk--Karnak in 1900, watercolor over graphite by Henry A. Bacon, 1900, Honolulu Museum of Art
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  Egyptian Pyramids, watercolor over graphite by Henry A. Bacon, 1897, Honolulu Museum of Art

References

• "Henry Bacon papers, 1849-1931". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 5 January 2009. 
• Ackerman, Gerald M. (1994). American Orientalists. ACR Édition. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-2-86770-078-1. 

External links

• Henry Bacon at American Art Gallery
• Henry Bacon papers, 1849-1931 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

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