‘I don’t want to cancel him’: Rose Boyt on confronting the gaze of her father, Lucian Freud

The novelist sat for her father three times – first in a naked portrait when she was 18. Now 65, she has written a memoir based on the diaries she kept at the time. She talks about her chaotic childhood, writing truthfully about her dad, and the books she read to him on his deathbedRose Boyt’s memoir, Naked Portrait, is, in the narrowest sense, her account of sitting for three paintings for her father, Lucian Freud. In the first, she sprawls, unclothed, legs spread wide on her father