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Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans (14 May 1592 – 1650) was the wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
- 14 May 1592
- Alice Barneham
- 1650 (aged 57–58); buried 9 July 1650
Alice Barnham, vizcondesa de St Albans (14 de mayo de 1592 – 1650) fue la esposa del filósofo científico y estadista inglés Francis Bacon.
Alice Barnham, wife of a London merchant, was a businesswoman in her own right, directing a silk production business that catered to an elite clientele. Some products of her profession are depicted here: the blackwork embroidery on her cuffs and collar and those of her sons, the ribbon around Martin’s waist, and the tablecloth with its ...
Let us try and find out a few facts of the early years of Alice Barnham, and admire the handsome, haughty face which looks out from her portrait; a face with more determination in it than charm.
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 ...
Alice Barnham, vizcondesa de St Albans (14 de mayo de 1592-1650) fue la esposa del filósofo científico y estadista inglés Francis Bacon.
21 de oct. 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.
