Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was born 8 December 1922 and he is a British painter.                                                        He is the son of an Austrian Jewish father, Ernst Ludwig Freud,  an architect, and a German mother, Lucie née Brasch.
Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris' East Angllian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, relocated in 1940 at Benton End near Hadleigh. He also attended Goldsmiths College-University of London  from 1942-3. He served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941 before being invalided out of service in 1942.

Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people, plants and animals in unusual juxtapositions. These works are usually painted with relatively thin paint.