Rebecca Daniels

Dr Rebecca Daniels is Senior Researcher at the Estate of Francis Bacon where she has worked since 2007. She is Associate Editor of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (2016).  Daniels is currently writing a book on Bacon’s early career as an interior decorator and how he transformed into a painter. She is also co-authoring a book Francis Bacon: The Artist’s Materials for the Getty Conservation Institute in L.A. She completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on Walter Sickert and while there catalogued the furniture collection at the Ashmolean Museum.  From 2008, Daniels has explored the influence of Sickert on Bacon bringing together her two research specialties. Daniels was a Trustee of the Sidney Nolan Trust from 2014-20 and curated Transferences: Sidney Nolan in Britain at Pallant House Gallery.