Background
He was the second son of the lithographer John Cardanall Bacon, and showed artistic talent from a young age.
He was the second son of the lithographer John Cardanall Bacon, and showed artistic talent from a young age.
He trained at the Westminster School of Art and the Royal Academy in London. In his teens he acquired a reputation as an outstanding Black and White illustrator, and at the age of 18 set off on a professional tour of India and Burma. On his return to England, in 1889, Bacon exhibited The Village Green and Nevermore at the Royal Academy and was a regular exhibitor from then on.
Bacon illustrated books as well as magazines and periodicals.
Bacon married in 1894 and took up residence at "Pillar House" in Harwell, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). He had 7 children. He died of acute bronchitis on 24 January 1914, aged only 49.
