Jacob Epstein; Judith Lade
1 portrait of Jacob Epstein
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Jacob Epstein; Judith Lade
by Unknown photographer, for Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage press print, 4 March 1952
9 5/8 in. x 7 5/8 in. (244 mm x 195 mm) image size
Purchased, 2012
Photographs Collection
NPG x136479
Sittersback to top
- Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), Sculptor. Sitter in 71 portraits, Artist or producer of 15 portraits.
- Judith Lade (1943-), Sitter to Epstein. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistsback to top
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 190 portraits.
- Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6584 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (Redfern Gallery, exhibition of Theodore Garman, Cork Street, London)
Events of 1952back to top
Current affairs
King George VI is found dead in his bed in Sandringham; he had been suffering from lung cancer. His daughter Elizabeth, who was in Kenya at the time, became Queen, the only monarch not to know the precise moment of her accession as her father was alone when he died. Elizabeth was crowned the following year.Art and science
Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot is performed for the first time in Paris. The play belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd style, which influenced playwrights such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London. It is still going.
International
Mau Mau rebels in Kenya rise up against the British colonial administration. The rebellion was sparked by the growing poverty of the native farmers under the rule of white settlers and called for Kenyan independence. The violence of the rebels, who often murdered settlers and loyalists, was met by the indiscriminate suppression by the British Military, who executed hundreds of suspects.Comments back to top
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David Saywell
06 June 2021, 06:51
The young sitter, Judith Lade, explained in her Tell us More entry on her sitter page in 2018 that this photograph was taken with Epstein at a Theodore Garman exhibition at the Redfern Gallery and that Garman was the son of Epstein. She mentions the New Art Gallery Walsall works by Garman too. Just to add to this the painting here is Garman’s ‘Window Picture in June’ from 1951, in the New Art Gallery. Garman died in 1954, aged just 29.