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Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans (14 May 1592 – 1650) was the wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
1928. PREFACE. The following sketch of the life of Alice Barnham, wife of Sir Francis Bacon, has been carefully compiled, and every endeavour has been made that dates should be correct. The entire story in Part II. has been brought to light by the discovery of the various documents found in the London Record Office, and elsewhere.
A 1557 portrait of a London merchant's wife and her two sons, showing their silk products and embroidery. The painting is one of the earliest family group portraits in British art and part of the Berger Collection gifted to the museum.
Were this a conventional biography of Alice Barnham, a study of her material world would detail the landmarks of London as she surely knew them: Whitehall in the west and the Tower in the east, symbolic of court culture and royal power; St Paul ’s Cathedral, dominant on the central skyline even without the steeple lost in 1561; the Thames ...
22 de out. de 2018 · Alice Barnham was the daughter of Benedict Barnham and Dorothy Smith. 1 She married, firstly, Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount Saint Alban, son of Sir Nicholas Bacon and Anne Cooke, on 10 May 1606 at Marylebone Chapel, Marylebone, London, England G. 1 She married, secondly, Sir John Underhill on 20 April 1626 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields ...
She married Sir Robert Honeywood on 4 December 1598, in St Clement Eastcheap with St Martin Orgar, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 11 daughters. She died on 14 March 1638, at the age of 57, and was buried in Charing, Kent, England. More.
21 de out. de 2009 · At its heart is the excavation of a forgotten Tudor woman, Alice Barnham. Between four chapters on the archival traces of Barnham and her family are four further chapters that use Barnham’s life to interrogate some key foci of early modern architectural history.
