Lucian Freud - Personal Life

Personal Life

Freud is rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children although this number is generally accepted as an exaggeration. Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses.

After an affair with Lorna Garman, he went on to marry, in 1948, her niece Kathleen "Kitty" Epstein, daughter of sculptor Jacob Epstein and socialite Kathleen Garman. They had two daughters, Annie and Annabel Freud, and the marriage ended in 1952. Kitty Freud, later known as Kitty Godley (after her marriage in 1955 to economist Wynne Godley), died in 2011.

Freud then began an affair with Guinness beer heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood. They married in 1953 and divorced in 1959. She is said to have been the only woman who truly broke his heart. After their divorce, his friends noticed a change in him; he began drinking heavily and getting into fights. Francis Bacon became concerned that he was suicidal.

Freud had additional children by the following women:

• Suzy Boyt, a pupil of Freud's at the Slade art school:

1. Alexander Boyt
2. Rose Boyt
3. Isabel Boyt
4. Susie Boyt

• Katherine Margaret McAdam (died 1998):

1. Paul Freud
2. Lucy Freud
3. David McAdam Freud
4. Jane McAdam Freud, artist/sculptor

• Bernardine Coverley, a teacher (died 2011):

1. Bella Freud, a fashion designer
2. Esther Freud, a writer

• Jacquetta Eliot, Countess of St Germans (née the Hon. Jacquetta Lampson):

1. The Hon. Francis Michael Eliot (born 1971)

• Celia Paul (born 1959), an artist:

1. Frank Paul (born 1985), an artist