Watson, Boris, here
Watson, Peter: LF accompanies to Oxford, here; sponsors Horizon, here, here; supports LF, here, here; taste and collecting, here; visits Benton End, here; drives ambulance in war, here; LF paints, here; friendship with Craxton, here, here; introduces K. Clark to LF, here; on organising committee for wartime ‘Aid to Russia’ show, here; funds Dylan Thomas, here; rents Tickerage Mill, Sussex, here; LF draws, here, here; sends LF and Craxton to Goldsmith College, here; commends LF for improvement, here; and Nigel Macdonald, here; LF gives print to, here; funds LF’s visit to Scillies, here; LF gives painting to, here; in Paris, here; Michael Wishart on, here; backs London Gallery, here; on British austerity, here; witnesses LF’s marriage to Kitty, here; lends money to LF for trip to Ireland, here; warns LF about Balthus, here; and discontinuation of Horizon, here; on Pasmore, here; attends LF’s marriage to Caroline, here; visits Coombe Priory, here; drowns in bath, here; in Michael Nelson novel, here
Waugh, Evelyn, here, here, here, here, here
Webb, Kaye, here
Weidenfeld, George, here, here
Weight, Michael, here
Weldon, Alice, here
Welles, Orson, here, here, here
Wells, Dr John, here
Werfel, Franz: Paul Among the Jews, here
West, Mae, here
Westhouse, John, here
Whitechapel Art Gallery, here
Whitman, Walt, here
Whitney, Freddy, here
Who’s Who, here
Wilde, Gerald, here, here, here, here
Wilde, Oscar, here, here
Wilenski, R.H., here
Wilfred (Jamaican cleaner), here
Willetts, Willy, here
Williams, Edward, here
Willing, Vic, here, here
Willoughby, Hugh, here
Willoughby de Eresby, Jane, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Willoughby de Eresby, Tim, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wilson, Angus (friend of Paul Crosse), here
Wilson, Sir Angus (novelist), here
Wilson, Mrs (of National Gallery), here
Wilton, John, 7th Earl of, here, here, here
Wind, Edgar, here
Winnicott, Donald, here
Wirth-Miller, Denis, here
Wishart, Ernest, here, here
Wishart, Francis, here
Wishart, Kathleen, here
Wishart, Lorna: LF’s involvement with, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; LF paints, here, here, here; break with LF, here, here; and LF’s girl friend in Scillies, here; treatment of children, here; and Anne Dunn-Michael Wishart wedding, here; bohemianism, here
Wishart, Michael: on Peter Watson, here; as Lorna’s son, here; juvenile drawings, here; on mother’s eyes, here; and Ian Gibson-Smith, here; and Bruce Bernard, here; stays at Delamere Terrace, here; models for LF, here; and LF’s involvement with Kitty Epstein, here; Clement Crisp criticises, here; as witness at LF’s marriage to Kitty, here; letter from Minton on LF’s Sleeping Nude, here; and Minton’s concern for LF’s poverty, here; appearance, here; and LF’s involvement with Pauline Tennant, here; brief engagement to Helena Hughes, here; and Haru (Irish-Japanese girl), here; Anne Dunn marries, here; LF stays with, here; and Minton’s view of Charlie Lumley, here; visits Coombe Priory, here; High Diver (autobiography), here
Wishart, Yasmin, here, here
Withers, Audrey, here
Witz, Konrad: St Christopher (painting), here
Wolf Man (Sigmund Freud’s patient), here
Wolfenden Committee Report (1957), here
Woman with Black Hair (LF; painting), here
Woman in a Butterfly Jersey (LF; painting), here
Woman with Carnation (LF; painting), here, here, here
Woman with a Daffodil (LF; painting), here, here
Woman with Fair Hair - Portrait I (LF; painting), here
Woman with Fair Hair - Portrait II (LF; painting), here
Woman in a Fur Coat (LF; painting), here
Woman Painter, A (LF; painting), here, here
Woman with Rejected Suitors (LF; painting), here, here
Woman Smiling (LF; painting), here, here, here, here
Woman with a Tulip (LF; painting), here, here, here
Woman in a White Shirt (LF; painting), here, here
women: as art students, here
Wood, Christopher, here, here, here, here; Zebra and Parachute, here
Woods, Bob, here, here
Woolf, Virginia, here, here
Woolley, Janetta, here, here
Wordsworth, Andrew, here
World War II: bombings, here; invasion threat (1940), here; ends, here
Wrey Gardiner, Charles, here; The Dark Thorn, here, here
Wright, David, here, here
Wright, John Buckland, here
Wyeth, Andrew, here
Wyndham, Dick (‘Whips’), here, here
Wyndham, Francis, here, here, here
Wyndham, Joan, here, here
X (quarterly review), here, here
Yanaihara, Isaku, here
Yeats, Jack B., here, here, here
Yeats-Brown, Major F., here
Yorke, Henry (Henry Green), here, here, here
Young, J.Z., here
Young Man (LF; drawing), here
Young Painter (LF; painting), here
Zervos, Christian, here
Zog, King of Albania, here
Zola, Émile, here
Zwemmer, Anton, here, here
A Note on the Author
William Feaver is a painter, curator and author, and has been the art critic for the Observer for 23 years. He is on the Academic Board of the Royal Drawing School where he also currently tutors. As well as extensive work as a broadcaster he has produced films including Lucian Freud Portraits (with Jake Auerbach) and The Last Art Film. His book Pitmen Painters (about the Ashington Group in Northumberland) was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall and has been performed throughout the world since 2007. He curated Lucian Freud’s 2002 retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002, and the 2012 exhibition of Freud’s drawings in London and New York. He also curated the John Constable exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2002 with Freud. He has sat, weekly, for Frank Auerbach since 2003.
Plates Section
Landscape with Birds, 1940
Girl on the Quay, 1941
Man with a Feather (Self Portrait), 1943
The Painter’s Room, 1944
Woman with a Daffodil, 1945
Girl with a Kitten, 1947
Father and Daughter, 1949
Girl with a White Dog, 1950–1
John Minton, 1952
Interior at Paddington, 1951
Hotel Bedroom, 1954
Woman Smiling, 1958–59
Pregnant Girl, 1960–61
Baby on a Green Sofa, 1961
Head, 1962
John Deakin, 1963–64
A Man and his Daughter, 1963–64
Naked Child Laughing, 1963
Man in a Blue Shirt, 1965
Michael Andrews and June, 1965–66
Girl on a Turkish Sofa, 1966
Naked Girl, 1966
Woman in a Fur Coat, 1967–68
Buttercups, 1968
Small Interior, c. 1968–72
Reflection with Two Children (Self Portrait), 1965
Annabel, 1967
Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening (Self Portrait), 1967–68
Large Interior, Paddington, 1968–69
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