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“... to induce a miscarriage before the arrival of her fourth.) ‘Girl with Roses’ (1947) by Lucian Freud These male depictions of the female body – depictions that force us to confront questions of agency and possession – are sometimes uncomfortable. That doesn’t make them incompatible with the experience of pregnancy – which, at its most ...”

“... of suspicion and criticism. And so, of course, it has. In Philosophies for Sale, for example, Lucian of Samosata (AD 115-200) imagines that representatives of major philosophical schools are being sold into slavery by the gods. The device allows him to parade, and to scoff at, Pythagoreans and Cynics, Heracliteans, Cyrenaics, and ...”

“... the pictures, some are presences not quite tamed by the painter, somehow still being themselves. Lucian Freud’s Evacuee of 1942, feral and maybe miserable; Daphne Spencer, giving nothing away in the portrait by her uncle Stanley (1951); Anna Akhmatova in 1922, rather dryly painted, tentatively drawn and stiffly posed in a portrait by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin ...”

“... a tradition of proletariat painting stretching back to Daumier. They might not have the force of Lucian Freud’s portraits, but Frankfurther’s paintings hold their own, finding something distinctive in their evasive and melancholy subjects. They couldn’t be further from the proto-Pop world of the Independent Group, or the futuristic and dystopian ...”

“... which gives the artist both his being and his significance, rather than the other way round. Lucian Freud made the same point once with a brilliant aside. Any words which might come out of his mouth concerning his art, he remarked, are about as relevant to that art as the noise a tennis player produces when playing a shot. He wrote one article for ...”

“... form of mind which is not strongly represented in these varied letters is his amused Lucianism. Lucian of Samosata taught Erasmus to laugh in a new way. Erasmus, More and Melanchthon translated Lucian into Latin. So did Rabelais. Lucianesque fun, somewhat diluted, adds sparkle and freshness to a little book which deserves ...”

“... he said, that they paid no attention to their souls, which were ‘smothered in a heap of mire’. Lucian, Galen’s contemporary, agreed. One of his short satires shows Hermes refusing to let a famous local beefcake called Damasius across the Styx to the underworld: passengers must be naked, and Damasius is wearing ‘so much flesh’ that he doesn’t meet ...”

“... in polite circles from his diplomatic missions, from his Latin epigrams, his Latin translations of Lucian of Samosata, and, in particular, from his Utopia. Even so, it had been Erasmus who had given him letters to friends such as Peter Giles, dedicatee of Utopia, in Antwerp and it was Erasmus who saw to the publication of ...”

“... but – indicatively maternal – protection. Rembrandt painted some women naked. So, too, did Lucian Freud – including one portrait (reproduced in Kate: The Kate Moss Book) of a naked, full length, very pregnant Kate Moss. Mona Lisa too, coincidentally, seems pregnant – hence her not so enigmatic expression. She is both thinking and smiling about ...”

“... usefulness by quoting the prices paid for the works and their subsequent exhibition histories. (Lucian Freud’s portrait of his first wife, Girl with Roses, was bought in 1948 for £157 10s, and has been shown in more than 40 places.) At the moment the main spaces in the original galleries contain work by the German artist Isa Genzken. Downstairs there are ...”

“... century, we hear of a new cult being successfully inaugurated, our source being the satirist Lucian. At Abonouteichos in Paphlagonia on the Black Sea, one Alexander claimed that the god Asclepius had manifested himself in the shape of a huge serpent with whose help oracles were given and mysteries enacted, unbelievers such as ...”

“... of his memoirs is from a photograph; the one on David Selbourne’s book is from a portrait by Lucian Freud. In the first he looks severe but quizzical, a kind man but not a man to be put upon; in the second he looks quite desperately sad, as if he had done much to little or no avail, and might well have been put upon quite heavily. Neither quite matches ...”

“... for the upper classes to mingle with louche artistic types – and, of course, vice versa. She met Lucian Freud at a party given by Lady Rothermere. He was the beautiful untidy young man standing at the back next to Francis Bacon and booing loudly while everyone else clapped Princess Margaret’s execrable rendering of a Cole Porter medley. Here, nicely ...”

“... younger brother, who was growing tomatoes in Guernsey. They impressed OUP with a translation of Lucian, and from then on were virtually full-time employees of the Press. Next came The King’s English (1906), which provided some of the content for the later Fowler. It begins on the same note: ‘Any one who wishes to become a good writer should ...”

“... unique and contingent. And yet surely that’s also the drive behind the finest paintings by Lucian Freud. More frequently, the camera’s capacity to collect evidence disrupts whatever is painting-like about the image. Photos by Tina Barney, a portraitist of contemporary aristocracy, share space with Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews. For all the ...”