Career
Only nine of Bacon"s paintings survive. He was particularly known for his kitchen and market scenes, dominated by still-life depictions of large vegetables and fruit, often accompanied by a buxom maid, the most well known being "The Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit" (Tate Gallery London). This predilection for cook or market scenes is much more common among Dutch and Flemish painters, see for example Joachim Beuckelaer, or from a later generation, Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck, and Cornelis Jacobsz Delff.
Bacon is credited with the first known British landscape, and also painted a self-portrait and a number of other portraits.
He was created a Knight of the Bath in 1625, in honour of the Coronation of Charles I.
