Epstein
JACOB, an American sculptor. He was born in New York, 1880, and was educated in the New York public schools. He then took up sculpture and after producing several minor works was commissioned in 1907 to execute eighteen figures to decorate the recently erected building of the British Medical Association in London. The work, with the strongly marked anatomy of the figures, aroused much adverse criticism, though it had its defenders. In 1909 he was commissioned to execute the tomb of Oscar Wilde for the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris; the tomb was carved out of Derbyshire marble. Later he decorated the Church Square, Pretoria, and in 1919 his figure of Christ caused much comment.