Baconiana 2024 and Visible Remains of Sir Nicholas Bacon

Announcing the Beautiful Supplement to this year’s Baconiana by Eric Roberts

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 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. 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.