Statesmen & Leaders
Jan Smuts
An unusually restless pose for a public statue — Smuts leans forward into the wind, hands clasped behind his back, as if striding across the veld. It was one of Jacob Epstein's rare official commissions, and controversial for exactly that energy.
- Subject
- Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa
- Sculptor
- Jacob Epstein
- Unveiled
- 1956
- Material
- Bronze
- Location
- Parliament Square, Westminster
