Barbara Hepworth married Skeaping on 13 May 1925 in Florence. In Italy, Hepworth learned how to carve marble from the master sculptor, Giovanni Ardini. Hepworth and Skeaping returned to London in 1926, where they exhibited their works together from their flat. Their son Paul was born in London in 1929. Her early work was highly interested in abstraction and art movements on the continent. In 1933, Hepworth travelled with Ben Nicholson to France, where they visited the studios of Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brâncuşi. Hepworth later became involved with the Paris-based art movement, Abstraction-Création. In 1933, Hepworth co-founded the Unit
Joseph Hepworth (tailor) further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops. Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death "Joseph Hepworth & Son" was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom. Hepworth married Sarah Rhodes in 1855 they went on to have three sons and four daughters. Joseph Hepworth (tailor) Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded "Joseph Hepworth & Son", a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known