About the Author

Martin Gayford, art critic and writer. His recent publications include Man with a Blue Scarf (in which he relates his experiences of sitting for Lucian Freud) and Constable in Love. He co-curated the Constable Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2009. David Hockney, British painter, printmaker and photographer, considered to be one of the most influential and significant artists of his generation. He was a friend of Lucian Freud, for whom he sat in 2002.