Private Collection 9.50" x 8" this lot comes accompanied with a certificate, it's not a print, this is a unique piece, style of Francis Bacon was born on 28 October 1909 in 63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. His father, Captain Anthony Edward Mortimer Bacon, known as Eddy, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to an English father and an Australian mother. Eddie was a veteran of the Boer War, a racehorse trainer, and grandson of Anthony Bacon, who claimed descent from Sir Nicholas Bacon, elder half-brother of Sir Francis Bacon, the Elizabethan statesman, philosopher and essayist. Francis' mother, Christina Winifred Firth, known as Winnie, was heiress to a Sheffield steel business and coal mine. Bacon had an older brother, Harley, two younger sisters, Ianthe and Winifred, and a younger brother, Edward. Francis was raised by the family nanny, Jessie Lightfoot, from Cornwall, known as 'Nanny Lightfoot', a maternal figure who remained close to him until her death. During the early 1940s, he rented the ground floor of 7 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, John Everett Millais's old studio, and Nanny Lightfoot helped him install an illicit roulette wheel there, organized by Bacon and his friends, for their financial benefit. The family moved house often, moving between Ireland and England several times, leading to a sense of displacement which remained with Francis throughout his life. The family lived in Canny court House in County Kildare from 1911, later moving to Westbourne Terrace in London, close to where Bacon's father worked at the Territorial Force Records Office. They returned to Ireland after the First World War. Bacon lived with his maternal grandmother and step-grandfather, Winifred and Kerry Supple, at Farmleigh, Abbeyleix, County Laois, although the rest of the family again moved to Straffan Lodge near Naas, County Kildare. Attributed to Francis Bacon (condition Good)

Good