biography
pronunciation:
[epstiyn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1959)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in New York City, USA. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, moving to London, UK, in 1905, and becoming a British subject. Several of his symbolic sculptures, such as ‘Ecce homo’ (1934), resulted in accusations of indecency and blasphemy. He was an outstanding modeller of bronze portrait heads of celebrities and children. In the 1950s, his last two large works, ‘Christ in Majesty’ (in aluminium; Llandaff Cathedral) and ‘St Michael and the Devil’ (in bronze; Coventry Cathedral), won more immediate acclaim. He was knighted in 1954. |
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