Edith Matthews, née Meredith. James Bolivar Manson (English, 1879-1945). Oil on canvas. Towne

Edith Matthews, née Meredith. James Bolivar Manson (English, 1879-1945). Oil on canvas. Towner.

Manson married Lilian Beatrice Laugher, a violinist, and they moved to the Latin Quarter in Paris, renting a room for £1 a month and economising in a shared studio with Charles Polowetski, Bernard Gussow and Jacob Epstein, who became a lifelong friend and with whom he studied at the Académie Julian, still dominated by the Impressionists’ enemy, Adolphe Bouguereau; occasionally Jean-Paul Laurens tutored.