John Bacon

(1740-1799)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bacon, John, 1740-1799 DNB: Bacon, John (1740–1799), sculptor LBT ID: JoBacon1799 VIAF ID: 26726540 LOC ID: no2002016352	B/BAP: 1740-12-24 DIED: 1799-08-07
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English sculptor who made a specialty of funerary monuments; he made the statues of Samuel Johnson in Westminster Abbey and John Howard in St. Paul's Cathedral.
REFERENCES TO John Bacon: Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [January] 1819 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1819