4. Fourteenth Portrait of Peggy Jean (without arms), bronze, 1931, h 58.4 cm, £22,000 Peggy Jean was Epstein’s much loved daughter by his mistress Dorothy Lindsell– Stewart (Meum) and this bronze was the penultimate portrait of the fifteen which he made of her. The Fourteenth Portrait of Peggy Jean, also known as Jeunesse (Youth), was made in 1932 when she was aged fifteen. Despite her youth she was already described by Richard Buckle as a buxom jovial woman. Peggy Jean eventually married Norman Hornstein, an Edinburgh lawyer whom she met in Paris, and settled in America.
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