Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

Mrs Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871 - 1964) was a noted art collector from Chicago who made bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Library of Congress. In 1905 she moved to London. A Chicago newspaper published just after the end of the First World War claimed that 'prior to the war her house in Mayfair was the gathering place for several groups of fashionables, notably those with a literary or artistic bent. All the great literary lions were to be found at her soires and she entertained with great distinction' (quoted in K. Crane-Gartz & M. Craig Sinclair, The Parlor Provocateur, or From Salon to Soap Box: the letters of Kate Crane Gartz, Pasadena, 1923, p. 25).