John Bacon the Younger (1777–1859) was an English sculptor best known for church monuments and commemorative sculpture in the early nineteenth century. The son of the sculptor John Bacon RA, he was trained within a firmly established neoclassical tradition and continued his father’s practice while adapting it to changing tastes in the post-Georgian period.

Bacon’s work is characterised by clarity of composition, disciplined modelling, and a restrained emotional register. His monuments frequently employ classical drapery and allegorical figures, but with an increasing sobriety that anticipates the academic restraint of later nineteenth-century ecclesiastical sculpture. In contrast to the theatrical tendencies that would emerge later in the Victorian period, his work remains measured and architecturally integrated.

Active primarily in funerary and church sculpture, Bacon produced monuments across Britain, contributing significantly to the continuity of neoclassical commemorative practice into the nineteenth century. Although often overshadowed by his father and by later sculptors such as Chantrey, his work represents an important transitional phase in British monumental sculpture.