Of the 14 children Lucian Freud acknowledged as his, none inherited more of his flamboyant artistic talent than the sculptor Jane McAdam Freud, the eldest of his four descendants of the convent pupil Katherine McAdam, whom he had noticed as a young fashion student in London.
But I’m sorry to report that this talent, which has garnered Jane numerous awards, was horribly extinguished by her untimely death on Tuesday – just 11 years after her father’s. “Jane was only 64,” notes Lucy, her younger sister, before providing an insight into the extraordinary circumstances in which she and Jane and her brothers Paul and David grew up.
Her mother was almost broken by Freud’s brazen infidelity, which led him to father three children by different women in 1961. Katherine herself gave birth to Lucy; Inn daughter Bernardine Coverley gave birth to Bella – the celebrated fashion designer Bella Freud – while Freud’s longtime lover and muse, Suzy Boyt, gave birth to Isobel, the third of the four children she would bear to him.
Recalling that Jane was eight when her mother left Freud, Lucy says it was this event that made her sister “even more determined to succeed.” She did so, Lucy adds, “without any financial support”.
Of the 14 children Lucian Freud acknowledged as his, none inherited more of his flamboyant artistic talent than the sculptor Jane McAdam Freud, eldest of his four descendants by convent raised Katherine McAdam
Unlike other women who bore him children, the girls’ mother refused to ask Freud anything. Katherine didn’t even tell him she was going, let alone where she and the children were headed – a tower block on a London council estate.
Jane and Lucy and their brothers never saw their father again when they were children. Freud expressed no regrets. When asked if he fathered children by different women at the same time, he replied, “Don’t you realize I had a bicycle?”
The brutal frivolity seemed to increase Freud’s attractiveness to women, including Jacquetta Eliot – wife of Perry St Eliot, later Earl of St Germans – by whom he had one son, Francis. Art student Celia Paul gave birth to Freud’s last recognized child, Frank, in 1984, 36 years after the birth of Annie, the first of his two children by Kitty Garman, one of only two women he married. The other was Lady Caroline Blackwood, who, unusually, bore him no children.
Jane has gone through all of this and won scholarships and, in adulthood, the European Trebbia Award for artistic achievement. Most notably, she bonded with her father, teaching him how to make lithographs and spending hours in his final months sketching him for a sculpture made after his death.
But she and her siblings were not mentioned in his £42million will, unlike her half-brothers and sisters.
But I’m sorry to report that this talent, which has garnered Jane numerous awards, was horribly extinguished by her untimely death on Tuesday – just 11 years after her father’s
Her mother was almost broken by Freud’s brazen infidelity, which led him to father three children by different women in 1961. Katherine herself gave birth to Lucy; Innkeeper Bernardine Coverley had Bella – the celebrated fashion designer Bella Freud
Why TV Chef Torode Hates Messy Kitchens
Careless cooking habits of MasterChef contestants have Judge John Torode boiling over.
“There are a few rules I swear by when cooking. First of all, I hate a messy kitchen,” explains the TV chef, 57.
“I am very clean and tidy and like order. When I’m putting together a plate of food, I like it when there’s pizzazz, but that doesn’t happen when you’re working in chaos. Torode, who is married to actress and former Celebrity MasterChef contestant Lisa Faulkner, adds, “I still find it hilarious how the people at MasterChef wreak havoc.
“They fight under time pressure and don’t look down. But I’m walking around and I’m like, ‘Who’s cleaning your house? Do you live here?”
Fancy a royal brush? The Queen is looking for a painter and decorator at Buckingham Palace. Not surprisingly, “a passion for historic buildings is a must”. The job pays up to £30,000 a year depending on experience. “It adds the decorative finishes that people will appreciate for years to come,” the ad reads.
Gallagher: The girl has my mind
Liam Gallagher was expelled from school at the age of 16, but the Oasis rocker still believes his new daughter owes her brains to him.
Molly Moorish Gallagher, 24, shared this picture after graduating from Goldsmiths University of London, where she studied Politics and Sociology. “It’s good to know that there are two of us in the family with brains,” jokes her father.
Molly, whose mother is singer Lisa Moorish, was estranged from Gallagher during childhood and only met him and her two half-brothers, Gene and Lennon, in 2019.
Molly Moorish Gallagher, 24, shared this picture after graduating from Goldsmiths University of London, where she studied Politics and Sociology
Eighties star Anneka Rice, who is making a comeback with a revival of Challenge Anneka, has admitted she once cheated Phillip Schofield and his producers by pretending that she was hypnotized to recall her past life, so she would receive an additional fee from the ITV Show Have I been here before?
“I really wanted the hypnosis to work to get the second fee. So that’s what I decided to do,” she explains. TSK tsk.
Jemima gets on her bike
Having inherited an estimated £10million fortune from her tycoon father Sir James Goldsmith, she could easily afford a chauffeured limousine, but Jemima Khan prefers two wheels.
The 48-year-old film producer wore a pair of wedges as she cycled to lunch at the trendy River Cafe in Hammersmith, west London. Next month will see the world premiere of her film What’s Love Got To Do With It? which she wrote and directed.
The romantic comedy, starring Lily James and Dame Emma Thompson, is said to be inspired by her nine-year marriage to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and cricket legend Imran Khan, whom she married when she was 21 and he was 42.
Having inherited an estimated £10million fortune from her tycoon father Sir James Goldsmith, she could easily afford a chauffeured limousine, but Jemima Khan prefers two wheels
Hancock rolls down with freebies
Singer Adele called Matt Hancock a “dirty sack” after hearing about his affair with his assistant Gina Coladangelo, but the former health secretary clearly bears no grudges. At least not if it’s a valuable giveaway.
The Tory MP has revealed in the Members’ Financial Interests Register that he has been awarded two £700 tickets to this summer’s most coveted concert: Adele’s performance in Hyde Park.
Hancock, pictured right with Coladangelo, received the tickets from UK Music, whose chief executive Jamie Njoku-Goodwin used to be his special adviser at the Department of Health. How convenient.
Singer Adele called Matt Hancock a “dirty sack” after hearing about his affair with his assistant Gina Coladangelo, but the former health secretary clearly bears no grudges