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Bacon served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Elizabeth I and presided over the House of Lords. He was an ardent Protestant and opposed Mary, Queen of Scots' claims to the English Crown. Sir Nicholas Bacon was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in 1558, the year in which Elizabeth I acceded to the throne. He was strongly in favour of stringent measures against Mary Stuart but was judicially impartial in his role as president of the conferences held to consider her relations with England and Scotland in 1568 and 1570. Said by his contemporaries to be 'exceedingly gross-bodied', in this portrait Bacon is shown holding the top of a gold-encrusted staff of office and the 'burse' containing the seal embroidered with Elizabeth's royal coat of arms.
Title
Sir Nicholas Bacon
Date
1579
Medium
oil on panel
Measurements
H 62.9 x W 49.1 cm
Accession number
164
Acquisition method
Purchased, 1863
Work type
Painting
National Portrait Gallery, London
St Martin’s Place, London, Greater London WC2H 0HE England
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