Jacob Epstein

Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born British sculptor, a pioneer of modern sculpture.^[1][2][3][4] He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter. His portrait heads were traditional, but much of his other work was modernist. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.^[5]

Sir Jacob Epstein KBE
Jacob Epstein, photographed in 1924 by George Charles Beresford
Born	10 November 1880 New York City, U.S.
Died	21 August 1959(1959-08-21) (aged 78) Kensington, London, England
Nationality	British / United States
Alma mater	Art Students League of New York Académie Julian École des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Sculpture
Spouses	Margaret Dunlop ​ ​ (m. 1906; died 1947)​ Kathleen Garman ​ ​ (m. 1955)​

St Michael's Victory over the Devil (1958) Coventry Cathedral

Lucifer (1944/5) Birmingham Art Museum and Gallery

Traditional sculpture of Field Marshal Jan Smuts in Parliament Square, London

Day and Night (1928) London Underground Headquarters, Broadway, London. Modernist sculpture, considered shocking at the time.

The sculptures Ecce Homo (Old Coventry Cathedral) and Rock Drill (1913–1914, Museum of Modern Art, New York City), are famous and important, but we have no images of them. On view in the Strand, London near Trafalgar Square, are his sculptures for Zimbabwe House. There are a number of his busts (sculptures of heads) in the National Portrait Gallery, also near Trafalgar Square.