Lucian Freud
| Lucian Freud was as a jewish painter, son of Ernst Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, used in the art scene. He had an affair with Sonia Brownell, wife of George Orwell and married Kitty Garman (Bloomsbury Group), daughter of Jacob Epstein (Art Students League of NY). He also married Caroline Blackwood, related to the Irish Guiness family, who worked for Partisan Review and Encounter magazine of Irving Kristol (Congress for Cultural Freedom), Stephen Spender and Zionist T.R. Fyvell (Information Research Department with George Orwell). She later married poet Robert Lowell. He was educated at Goldsmiths' College. His early paintings were surrealist (influenced by psychoanalysis). |  |
He was part of the Soho scene and School of London with Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach (Bunce Court School, transferred through Kindertransport, film directed by Hannah Rotschild).
He was funded by Peter Watson (Horizons of Stephen Spender) and Andrew Cavendish, married to Deborah Mitford (sister of Nancy and Diana Mitford, married to fascists) and brother-in-law of JFK's sister Kathleen Kennedy.
He was a member of the Clermont Set with Ian Fleming, James Goldsmith (CFW), Anthony Cavendish (Le Cercle) and Gianni Agnelli. He was a friend of Jerry Hall, married to Mick Jagger and later Rupert Murdoch.
His work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art. He made a portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles, former husband of Camilla Parker Bowles.
His brother Clement Freud worked for BBC and Queen magazine, which created Radio Carolina to promote the Swinging London scene and later became Harper's Bazaar of Hearst. After his death, he was accused of pedophilia.
Clement's son Matthew Freud married Elizabeth Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert Murdoch and founded PR company Freud Communications. He had a relationship with the mother of Playboy model Marina Baker/Pepper. He was mentioned in Adam Curtis BBC documentary ' Century of the Self. His first wife Caroline Hutton married the brother of Diana Spencer.
His daughter Esther Freud was trained at The Drama Centre (Stanislavski's system, Paul Bettany, Pierce Brosnan, Simon Callow, Colin Firth, Lambert Wilson, Bradley James), played in Dr Who and wrote Hideous Kinky, adapted into a movie with Kate Winslet. She married actor David Morrissey (Nowhere Boy, Sense and Sensability). She is a friend of Kitty Aldridge, married to Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.
His daughter Bella Freud was used in the fashion industry and married James Fox who co-wrote the biography of Keith Richards.
Marc Bernays Randolph co-founded Netflix, which like the Tavistock Institute, pushes the gay-transgender agenda.
born 12/8/1922.
died 7/20/2011.