FOUR BY FASHION STUDENT
LUCIAN met Katherine Mcadam when she was a 19-year-old fashion student and he was married to his first wife, Kitty. They had four children (Jane, Lucy, Paul and David) — all born after Freud’s second, childless, marriage to Caroline Blackwood had collapsed. Freud’s womanising drove Mcadam to despair, and in 1966 she moved to a council flat. The children didn’t see their father again until they were adults. They were excluded from his will.
1. The Sculptor
JANE MCADAM FREUD, born in 1958, lives in Harrow, north west london, with an architect and two grown-up stepsons.
She was 31 when she reconnected with her father after winning a scholarship to the rome academy of Fine art. He asked if she would teach him to sculpt.
lucian helped fund a master’s degree at the royal College of art but they saw less of each other as he grew older. Jane was angry that their branch of the family was not acknowledged by him.
‘He always (wrote) to us on cards with his work on it. i keep them in a box. That’s all it is, though. a little box of bits. Half our parentage,’ Jane said.
2. Cruise ship artist who married a plumber
LUCY MCADAM FREUD is one of lucian’s three children born in 1961. a gifted artist, she graduated from the wimbledon School of art. She is now an art instructor for Cunard cruises.
She has two sons, Peter and James, by her ex-husband, a plumber she married when she was 22. lucian was invited to the wedding but didn’t come.
when she visited him as he was ailing in 2011, she hadn’t seen him for 15 years. She said: ‘He stroked my cheek and cuddled me as if there had never been such a distance between us. He told me, “i’m a very selfish person”. Maybe it was a kind of apology on his part.’
3. The son who contested the will
Paul Mcadam Freud, 58, an artist, re- established contact with his father in 1989 at a book launch. lucian said that he wanted to paint Paul’s wife Kathryn (a doctor with whom Paul has three children). She did not sit for him.
‘i was a bit livid. why would i want my father looking at my wife naked?’ said Paul, who lives in Southwark, South london.
But a relationship developed