Boca Raton Museum of Art
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501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
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Museums page for Henry Bacon ((1839 - 1912)), known for Genre, figure, portrait and landscape painting, illustration. Showing 10 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1839 Haverhill, Massachusetts - 1912 Cairo, Egypt. Known for: Genre, figure, portrait and landscape painting, illustration.
HENRY BACON. Known for both his accurately painted genre scenes and his watercolor renderings of views of Normandy and Egypt, Henry Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. He served in... Read full biography
HENRY BACON. Known for both his accurately painted genre scenes and his watercolor renderings of views of Normandy and Egypt, Henry Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, was badly wounded, and discharged so that he and his wife were... Read full biography
HENRY BACON. Known for both his accurately painted genre scenes and his watercolor renderings of views of Normandy and Egypt, Henry Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, was badly wounded, and discharged so that he and his wife were able to travel to Paris in 1864. That October the two stayed in Brittany. Robert Wylie spotted the couple two years later in a restaurant and described Bacon as "a handsome fellow of about our age of... Read full biography
HENRY BACON. Known for both his accurately painted genre scenes and his watercolor renderings of views of Normandy and Egypt, Henry Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, was badly wounded, and discharged so that he and his wife were able to travel to Paris in 1864. That October the two stayed in Brittany. Robert Wylie spotted the couple two years later in a restaurant and described Bacon as "a handsome fellow of about our age of twenty with long, dark hair and a generally artistic aspect." Bacon must have been well versed in the French language, history and culture, for he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; one of his teachers there was Alexandre Cabanel. Moreover, he... Read full biography
HENRY BACON. Known for both his accurately painted genre scenes and his watercolor renderings of views of Normandy and Egypt, Henry Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1839. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, was badly wounded, and discharged so that he and his wife were able to travel to Paris in 1864. That October the two stayed in Brittany. Robert Wylie spotted the couple two years later in a restaurant and described Bacon as "a handsome fellow of about our age of twenty with long, dark hair and a generally artistic aspect." Bacon must have been well versed in the French language, history and culture, for he was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; one of his teachers there was Alexandre Cabanel. Moreover, he rubbed shoulders with Thomas Eakins in Gérôme's atelier. At that time, Bacon earned money by writing "penny-a-liners" for Boston newspapers.... Read full biography
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About Henry Bacon: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (10)
All MuseumsCrocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Box 466
Rockland, ME 04841-0466George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Currier Museum of Art
201 Myrtle Way
Manchester, NH 03104Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196