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Nathaniel Bacon
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(1587–1627) Britain's most distinguished amateur painter and probably the best English-born painter of any kind in the early decades of the 17th century. Born a gentleman (Francis *Bacon was his uncle), he went to Italy to study painting. But subsequent travels in the Low Countries had a stronger influence on his style - as seen in particular in his striking image of a maid whose luscious breasts are echoed in the ripe profusion of fruit and vegetables on her kitchen table (now in Tate Britain). Most of his few surviving works are portraits. He was created a knight at Charles I's coronation in 1625.
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