Nathaniel Bacon (painter)

Sir Nathaniel Bacon, KB (1585 – 1627) was an English painter, landowner and horticulturist from Culford, Suffolk.

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.

He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, who was the elder brother of the leading politician and philosopher Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam),[1] and so with connections to the political elite of late Elizabethan England.

Their daughter, Jane, aged three years, died that same October, and is buried alongside her father.

[citation needed] Bacon is commemorated at St Mary's Church, Culford with a monument by the sculptor Nicholas Stone.