Henry Bacon (painter)

Henry Bacon (1839 – 13 March 1912) was an American painter, author, illustrator, and translator. Before his formal training as an artist, he served as a soldier and encounter artist during the American Civil War, and was badly wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run. He then studied in France, and became a zealot of the Pont-Aven School, painting genre subjects of French country life, many sold assist in America. He first traveled to Egypt in 1897, and subsequently developed an fascination in Orientalist painting, soon spending his winters in the Middle East, dying in Cairo.