London’s National Portrait Gallery will stage a major Lucian Freud exhibition next spring which the artist collaborated on up until his death in July.

The death of Lucien Freud highlights a specific crisis in the art of the ­traditional portrait.

Lucien Freud, widely considered to be the greatest modern portrait painter, has died at the age off 88.

Lucien Freud, widely considered to be the greatest modern portrait painter, has died at the age off 88.