Albert Einstein

In March 1933, Albert Einstein fled Nazi Germany, and in the summer of that year briefly took refuge in an isolated cabin in Norfolk on the invitation of MP Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson. Whilst staying there, he sat for Sir Jacob Epstein, one of the leading British sculptors of the time. When recollecting their meeting, Epstein recalls Einstein’s 'wild hair floating in the wind' and how 'his glance contained a mixture of the humane, the humorous, and the profound. This was a combination that delighted me. He resembled the ageing Rembrandt' (J. Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1955, p. 77).