The Cotman Collection | Bacon, Marjorie May, born 1902

Marjorie May Bacon

born 1902


Born in Ipswich She studied at Norwich Art School and later at Royal College of Art, obtaining her diploma in 1927. She married at Kensington, London in 1936, widower Henry MacBeth-Raeburn [q.v.] and in 1939 an artist living with her husband and two sibling brothers Trevor Francis, an art student, and Raymond Arthur M., a chemist, and a sister Audrey Winifred, at their parents home at 33 Southtown Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. An artist & printmaker, she exhibited at the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club and as Marjorie Bacon, a member of the Ipswich Art Club 1943-1945 exhibiting in 1943 three oils 'Pride of the Farm Yard', 'Owen Tudor as a Foal' and 'Autumn Flowers' she also had on show a mezzotint after Raeburn 'Master Lodge'. She died at Great Yarmouth in 1988.