Jacob Kramer

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Jacob Kramer was a painter from Ukraine who settled in Leeds in 1900. Epstein asked him to model for him, and offered to sit for Kramer as well. He later recalled: 'Kramer, the Leeds painter, seemed like a man on fire - always so nervous. Energy burst into his hair as he sat still, sometimes he would be jolted by sudden trembling, like chills. I tried to calm him down so we could get back to work.'