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Painters’ Paintings: From Freud To Van Dyck | Inspiring Impressionism | Lucian Freud Unseen | Storms, War & Shipwrecks | Jim Hodges
When the pungently realist painter Lucian Freud died in 2011 he left the National Gallery a work of art. Was it a British painting, a tough expressionist daub, or perhaps a work by Manet or Courbet? No, it was an enigmatic dark-eyed portrait by the romantic painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, who is usually thought of as a wan landscapist. Freud’s e