Dolores first modelled for Jacob Epstein in 1921, and moved in with him and his wife Margaret at Guilford Street in 1922. She stayed until 1925 and Epstein made six studies of her. Margaret Epstein was trying to end her husband's affair with Kathleen Garman, who eventually became his second wife, by encouraging him into affairs with other women but although Epstein found Dolores beautiful, he apparently had no romantic interest in her.Gardiner, Stephen. (1993) Epstein: Artist Against the Establishment. London: Flamingo, p. 228. The Epsteins were generous to Dolores, paying for everything, to keep her from leaving. She became, in her own words, "a happy prisoner in Guilford Street" and it was the association with Epstein, who was frequently in the papers, combined with her own talent for self-promotion, that made Dolores famous.Gardiner, 1993, pp. 229–233.
