Euphemia Lamb

Euphemia Lamb
Euphemia by Ambrose McEvoy, oil on canvas, 1909, Tate Gallery.
Born
Annie Euphemia Forrest[1]

1887[1]
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England[1]
Died1957 (aged 69–70)[2]
Known forArtist's model
Saint Euphemia, Andrea Mantegna, tempera on canvas, 1454

Euphemia Lamb (née Annie Euphemia Forrest; 1887 – 1957)[2] was an English artists' model and the wife of painter Henry Lamb. She modelled for Augustus John and Jacob Epstein and came to exemplify the sexual freedom of the bohemian lifestyle of the early twentieth century.[2]

Henry Lamb called her Euphemia, by which name she was generally known. John Maynard Keynes commented that Euphemia had more of a sex life "than the rest of us put together".[3] She was one of the lovers of the occultist Aleister Crowley.[4]

  1. ^ a b c England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Jim was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Holroyd, Michael. (1997). Augustus John. London: Vintage. pp. 248–250. ISBN 0099333015.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Churton was invoked but never defined (see the help page).