John Henry Frederick Bacon (1868-1914), important English painter and illtrator, member of the Royal Academy. ''The village orator'', large-scale portrait of a bearded man in a dark three-piece suit. Oil on canvas, bottom right signed u. indistinctly dated ''John H. Bacon 18..'', two patches with retouching, inscribed on frame plaque, 77 x 63 cm, framed 103 x 90 cm