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Elisabeth Frink
English sculptor and printmaker
Dame Elisabeth Jean FrinkCH DBE RA (14 November 1930 – 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker.
Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".[1][2]
Early life
Elisabeth Frink was born in November 1930 at her paternal grandparents' home The Grange in Great Thurlow, a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England.
Her parents were Ralph Cuyler Frink and Jean Elisabeth (née Conway-Gordon). Captain Ralph Cuyler Frink, was a career officer in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards[3] and among the men of the cavalry regiment evacuated from Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940.[4] She was raised in a Catholic household.[4]
The Second World War, which broke out shortly before Frink's ninth birthday, provided context for some of her e