Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (1880 – 1959) was an American-British artist renowned for his sculptures, which challenged the general public’s option on public art, and for his numerous bronze portraits.

Born in America where he worked in a bronze foundry, and studied drawing and sculptural modelling in the evening, he moved first to Paris where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and then to London in 1905, becoming a British subject in 1911. Some of Epstein's most famous works include his commission for Oscar Wild’s tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, and The Rock Drill, a Vorticist inspired sculpture of man and machinery, of which a radically transformed version is now held in Tate’s collection.

In 2000 the Epstein Estate appointed Tate Images the copyright agent for the entire Epstein oeuvre.

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Isabel Epstein, The estate of Sir Jacob Epstein

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