Francis Bacon: A brush with Bacon
The first celebrated Francis Bacon was born in the Strand, during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was raised as an English gentleman, and wrote elegant essays upon morality, taste, public virtue and private manners. The second, a descendant of the first, was born in a nursing home in Dublin to English parents, and became a self-taught painter whose canvases, when they were first widely shown in the 1940s, provoked exclamations of disgust, horror and near-incredulity. Would the first have acknowledged the second socially? It seems rather unlikely.
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