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Marjorie May Bacon, later Marjorie Macbeth-Raeburn (6 January 1902 – 9 February 1988) was a British printmaker and painter.

Biography

Bacon was born in Ipswich and lived in Great Yarmouth as a child. Bacon attended Yarmouth Art School from 1914–23 where she won a scholarship in 1917 and by 1921 passed the Board of Education's drawing examinations at the earliest age possible. She studied at the Norwich School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London, obtaining her diploma in 1927.

Bacon produced aquatints, wood-engravings and lithographs. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the New English Art Club. Her Royal Academy exhibits included Miss Aline Wilson of Welby Park, 1934. An oil painting by Bacon depicting Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret as children riding on horses is held in the Royal Collection.

In 1936, in London, Bacon married the artist Henry Macbeth-Raeburn and, by 1939, the couple were living in Great Yarmouth. In the 1940s, she was a member of, and exhibited with, the Ipswich Art Club.

References

1. ^ "Bacon, Marjorie May (1902-1988)". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
2. Bury, Stephen (2012). Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University.
3. ^ Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
4. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
5. Grant M. Waters. Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950 Volume II. Eastbourne Fine Art.
6. "Bacon, Marjorie May". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
7. "Princess Elizabeth (1926-) and Princess Margaret (1930-2002) Riding". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

External links

• 1 artwork by or after Marjorie May Bacon at the Art UK site

• 1902 births
• 1988 deaths
• 20th-century English painters
• 20th-century English women artists
• Alumni of Norwich University of the Arts
• Alumni of the Royal College of Art
• Artists from Ipswich