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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Jacob Epstein
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(1880–1959, kt 1954) Born in New York of Russian-Polish parents, he settled in London in 1905. The Rock Drill (1913–15) was the outstanding work of *Vorticism (only the torso of the figure survives, cast in bronze – there is an example in the Tate). His early public commissions often caused outrage, in particular his 1912 space-age angel on the tomb of Oscar *Wilde in Paris. But two of the best-known Christian monuments in Britain today are his – the bronze St Michael and the Devil on the wall of *Coventry Cathedral, and the aluminium Christ in Majesty in *Llandaff Cathedral. He was also a skilful and prolific portraitist in bronze.
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