If Lucian Freud ... his daughter, Rose Boyt. “I am not sure he ever stayed the night,” she recalls. Freud met Boyt’s mother Suzy when he lectured at the Slade School of Art in the 50s.

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...