Lucian Freud will not forgive Clement

It looks like Lucian Freud’s long-running feud with his brother Clement Freud, the former liberal MP, will go with him to the grave. The painter, who is approaching his 86th year, told the Daily Mail that he can’t bring himself to forgive his sibling for an allegation made more than twenty years ago. He said: "Do you know, Clement put it about that I was illegitimate, which is a bit odd as I was the middle child. Why on Earth would I want to speak to him?"

And Freud, whose Benefits Supervisor Sleeping created a new world record for a living artist when it sold in New York last month for over £17m, is no great fan of his other brother, Stephen Freud, for the same reason. "I don’t speak to him. Years ago, he forced me to take legal action against him. He also said I was illegitimate. Not seeing him or speaking to him doesn’t worry me in the least."