Emma Freud in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator. Emma Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, the ex-husband of Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's daughter. Painter Lucian Freud was her uncle. Her father's family were Jewish refugees. Freud was educated in London at the all-female Queen's College school
Lucian Freud Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal mounted a major exhibition of 27 paintings and thirteen etchings, covering Freud's output to date. The following year the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art presented "Lucian Freud: Early Works". The exhibition comprised around 30 drawings and paintings done between 1940 and 1945. This was followed by a large retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002. In 2001, Freud completed a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. There was criticism of the portrayal in some sections of the British media. "The Sun" was particularly condemnatory, describing the portrait as "a travesty". In 2005, a retrospective of