Lucian Freud Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect. He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud. The family emigrated to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Lucian became a British subject in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School, for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour. Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London, and from 1939 to
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Jones." Psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), described Jones' biography of Freud as the "most famous", but saw it as "more a mythology than a history", charging Jones with suppressing data which might reflect unfavourably on Freud. Historian Roy Porter described Jones' work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". Philosopher Jerome Neu called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" the most useful biography of Freud, alongside Gay's "Freud: A Life for Our Time". Philosopher Richard Wollheim called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" a "great" biography, but observed that while Jones had "lived