Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Bust of Winston Churchill (Epstein) Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947. Epstein was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to create a sculpture of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in August 1945, after the end of the Second World War and shortly after Churchill lost the 1945 UK general election. Two casts have been displayed in the Oval Office. Another remains on display in the atrium of Churchill College, Cambridge. Epstein applied to become a British official war artist after he was conscripted in the First World War, but his application was rejected.
Philip Hepworth Nikolaus Pevsner in 1954 as in "the Swedish style of c.1925 which became so popular in England amongst those who were not satisfied to be imitatively Neo-Georgian nor wanted to go modern or earnest." From 1936, Hepworth lived in and restored Zoffany House in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, formerly the home of the 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany. Zoffany House was listed as Grade II* on 11 July 1951. Hepworth also designed Wiltshire County Hall in Trowbridge (begun in 1938 and finished in 1940). Around the start of World War II, Hepworth designed a Roman Catholic church in Wales, paid for by