Joseph Patrick Bacon
Died 1894
Active: 1826 - 1894
Headmaster of art school
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Minton and Company
1860 (Circa)
Employed by Minton, possibly as a ceramic painter [see Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 16].
Principal of Newcastle School of Art
1853 (Circa) - 1890 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30. See 'Year's Art' 1890, p. 135.
Principal of Stoke School of Art
1864 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 21 and p. 26.
Haggar notes in 'Dictionary' (1947) that from 1847 to 1856 there are no records for Stoke art school and that he may have been assistant master before becomming principal.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 21, 26, 30 and 38.
A Dictionary of Ceramic Artists
2007
p. 16.
Citing this record
'Joseph Patrick Bacon', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1219069244, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
