Marjorie May Bacon | |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1902 |
Birth Place: | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
Death Place: | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England |
Nationality: | British |
Known For: | Painting |
Spouse: | Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (m. 1936–1947, his death) |
Marjorie May Bacon, later Marjorie Macbeth-Raeburn (6 January 1902 - 9 February 1988) was a British printmaker and painter.
Bacon was born in Ipswich and lived in Great Yarmouth as a child.[1] 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.[2] She studied at the Norwich School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in London, obtaining her diploma in 1927.[3]
Bacon produced aquatints, wood-engravings and lithographs.[4] She exhibited at the Royal Academy and with the New English Art Club.[5] Her Royal Academy exhibits included Miss Aline Wilson of Welby Park, 1934.[6] An oil painting by Bacon depicting Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret as children riding on horses is held in the Royal Collection.[7] 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.