1. Euphemia Lamb was an English artists' model and the wife of painter Henry Lamb.
17 Facts About Euphemia Lamb
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Henry Lamb called her Euphemia, by which name she was generally known.
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Euphemia Lamb was one of the lovers of the occultist Aleister Crowley.
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Euphemia Lamb was married under the name Nina Euphemia Forrest in 1906.
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Euphemia Lamb claimed that she was born on a steamship bound for Bombay, but there is no independent verification of this, and her birth was registered in Lancashire.
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Euphemia Lamb was raised in Greenheys, a poor district of Manchester known as a centre for prostitution.
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Euphemia Lamb was one of the models who networked at the Cafe Royal before the First World War, occupying a grey area between professional model and prostitute.
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Euphemia Lamb was slim, pale, and fair-haired and apparently able to adopt any pose that might be asked of her.
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Henry had been John's pupil in London, and Euphemia Lamb modelled for John.
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On one occasion, according to Euphemia Lamb, her penchant for dressing like a man had unfortunate consequences, she and John were arrested as homosexuals and she was required to undress in custody in order to prove she was a woman.
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Euphemia Lamb claimed that she had a revolver and was prepared to shoot herself and her husband, and that she had caused the death of John's first wife Ida who had died in childbirth.
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Three studies of Euphemia Lamb are in the Leeds City Art Gallery.
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Around 1910, Epstein completed for Lady Ottoline Morrell a garden figure of 53 inches for which Euphemia Lamb was the model.
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In Paris, Euphemia Lamb became the lover of the occultist Aleister Crowley; in 1908 they conspired to humiliate Crowley's male lover and acolyte Victor Neuburg by convincing him that Euphemia Lamb was in love with him while Crowley pressed him into visiting a brothel, thus making him unfaithful to her.
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In 1910, Euphemia Lamb met James Dickson Innes at a cafe on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, and the two began an affair which was more intense for Innes than for Euphemia Lamb who never restricted her relationships to just one man.
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Euphemia Lamb was living at Stoke House in Stoke St Mary Bourne, Hampshire at least by 1939, and it was her address at the time of her death and recorded in the Probate Index, which shows her effects valued at nearly 37,000 pounds.
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Euphemia Lamb died on 26 January 1957 in hospital at Winchester.