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Visible Remains of Sir Nicholas Bacon
Roberts, Eric, Visible Remains of Sir Nicholas Bacon, The Artefacts that Preserve his Name and Legacy, The Francis Bacon Society (2024), 73 pages.
Visible Remains is a very impressive contribution to art history and the Bacon family and is a beautiful and painstakingly collated piece of work which is of great insight into the Tudor period.
Eric Roberts (described by Master Shuttleworth of Gray’s Inn’s History Society) as our excellent historian, has liaised with all the major institutions for permissions including The Royal Collection Trust, Gray’s Inn, British Library, National Portrait Gallery, Corpus Christi, Cambridge, The Ashmolean, Cambridge University and Royal Museums Greenwich.
At first glance, it may seem that artefacts belonging to Sir Nicholas Bacon may have limited relevance or resonance to Sir Francis Bacon or to the modern world. In actual fact we all have much to owe to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Elizabeth I’s solid and wise Lord Keeper with his unswerving dedication to duty and service to both his family and to his country at a most critical period in history.
Sir Nicholas came from humble but pioneering beginnings and his father Robert Bacon who was a yeoman sheep farmer gave him one very precious gift – an education. It was from his father that Nicholas learnt the power that knowledge and an education could give. In his case, a power to be used judiciously for civic duty and the greater good. Dedicated to learning, Sir Nicholas was a towering, generous statesman and a great agent for lasting change. To his family and particularly his youngest son Francis, he was a much loved and admired father, and an inspiration and role model, who contributed massively along with Lady Anne Bacon to the extraordinary man Francis Bacon became.
The Francis Bacon Society is pleased to present art historian Eric Roberts’ latest offering. Visible Remains was developed from a series of research findings posted on the SirBacon.org discussion forum over many months. The project began as a series of regular newsletter articles published by the Society, with the idea of collating them for this year’s Baconiana. The Society would like to take this opportunity to officially thank the various individuals and cultural institutions who contributed to the project by allowing the inclusion of images owned by them. Without their generous cooperation, this booklet could not have been made available to the public.
Visible Remains Available to Read and Download Here