Jacob Epstein
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Sir Jacob Epstein was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.
1921 photograph by George Charles Beresford
A type of a laboring man from The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902
Epstein's 1913 sculpture Rock Drill in its original form
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Lucian Freud
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Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
Jacob Epstein
…Epstein died in 1947 and he married Kathleen Garman in 1955. Their eldest daughter, also named Kathleen but known as "Kitty", married the painter Lucian Freud in 1948 and was the mother of his daughters Annie and Annabel. She is the subject of Freud's painting Portrait of Kitty. In 1953 they divorced. She…
Freud in 2005
Girl with a White Dog, 1951–1952, Tate Gallery. Portrait of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman
138 Kensington Church Street (left). This was Freud's residence and studio from the late 1970s until his death.
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, a very large portrait of "Big Sue" Tilley, showing his handling of flesh tones, and a typical high viewpoint