Lucian Freud Freud then began to see Guinness heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood. They married in 1953 but divorced in 1959. Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud, OM (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was unreliable and replaced the negative legend with a positive legend. Historian R. Andrew Paskauskas found that Jones' use of his correspondence with Freud in "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" involved significant problems, especially where Jones altered Freud's English. According to Paskauskas, while Jones stated that he had not altered Freud's grammar, "there are nevertheless many dissimilarities of spelling, grammar, and punctuation between the letters quoted in Jones's published biography and Freud's originals." He accused Jones of errors in his citations of Freud's letters, such as mistakenly citing his letters to Freud as letters from Freud. Historian of