Lucian Freud was born in Berlin in 1922, the grandson of Sigmund Freud. In 1933, the family moved to London, England. By the early 1940's, Freud had begun painting full time. To this day, London is Freud's permanent home from which he rarely leaves." Godard Gallery

My work is purely autobiographical,...It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know... When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. - L.F.

According to the Sunday Telegraph of September 1, 2002, Lucian Freud is rumoured to have up to 40 illegitimate children, acknowledging them when they have become adults. He married Kathleen Epstein in 1948. He married writer Caroline Blackwood in 1957. He has children by Jacquetta Lampson, daughter of the first Baron Killearn, and by Bernardine Coverley (one of whom is writer Esther Freud), Suzy Boyt, and Margaret McAdam. [Source: Search Spaniel]