<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg/220px-Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="279" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg/330px-Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="434" data-file-height="550"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Nicholas_Bacon.jpeg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Original portrait in National Maritime Museum, Grenwich, London</div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg/220px-Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg/330px-Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg/440px-Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2954" data-file-height="3835"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Nicholas_Bacon._Wellcome_M0012915.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Original portrait in Welcome Collection, London</div></div></div>
<p>Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, copy mid-17th century of portrait circa 1577/9 (when he was aged 68) holding his rod of office and the purse of the Great Seal, with royal arms of Queen Elizabeth I. Upper left the sitter's coat-of-arms and inscribed: MEDIOCRIA FIRMA: / SIR NICHOLAS BACON, and upper right: "15-9 (1579 ?) AET(ATIS) 68"; inscribed on frame, verso: Sir N. Bacon. Arms: <i>Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable</i> (Bacon) quartering  <i>Barry of six or and azure, a bend gules</i> (Quaplade) overall a crescent for difference of a second son. Original portrait in National Maritime Museum, Grenwich, London. 
Date	1579
Source	en-WP and 
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<ul><li>oil on canvas</li>
<li>126 by 103.5 cm</li></ul>
<bdi>Unknown<span style="display: none;">Unknown </span>, English School
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