Not having the look of the sitter, being them. From his early works such as the celebrated Interior in Paddington, 1951, he rendered his subjects with a meticulous intensity, already displaying the harsh and penetrating observation that would inspire Kenneth Clark's famous description of him as the 'Ingres of Existentialism.' During the late fifties however, he substituted sable for hogs-hair brushes, and accordingly, this miniaturist style gave way to a broader, more robust approach as Freud himself elucidates, 'I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. The grandson of eminent psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud is widely regarded as the most important figure in contemporary British painting.
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