ri S o Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizaheth. 



He travelled into Italy and iludied paint- 

 ing there j but his manner and colouring 

 approaches nearer to the ftyle of the Flemilli 

 fchool. Peachann on limning p. 126, fays, 

 ** But none in my opinion deferveth more 

 refped and admiration for his fkill and 

 pradlice in painting than mafter Nathaniel 

 Bacon of Broome in Suffolk (younger fon 

 to the mod honorable and bountifull-mind- 

 ed Sir Nicholas Bacon) not inferior in my 

 judgment to our fkillfulleft mafters/* At 

 Culford where he lived, are preferved fome 

 of his works, and at Gorhambury his fa- 

 ther's feat, is a large pi^fture in oil by him, 

 of a cook maid with dead fowls, admirably 

 painted, with great nature, neatnefs and luftre 

 of colouring. In the fame houfe is a whole 

 length of him by himfelf, * drawing on a 

 paper ; his fvv'ord and pallet hung up : and 

 a half length of his mother by him. At 

 Redgrave-hall in Suffolk were two more 



* His monumeut and bull are in the church at Cul- 

 ford, with his pallet and pencils. There is another for 

 him at Stiffkey in Norfolk, the infcriptioa on wljich 

 |nay be {^qh in the appendix to Mailers 's Hiftory of 

 Corpus Chrilti coll. Camb. p. 85. It is faid in the note 

 that Sir Nathaniel was famed for painting plants, and 

 well Ikilled in their virtues. 



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