Elizabeth II by Lucian Freud

HE'S THE irascible, reclusive creator of the world’s most expensive painting by a living artist, has a legendary appetite for much younger women and has as many as 40 children

Freud has at least 15 confirmed children with at least 6 different women. Every 10 years, about 15 members of the Freud brood congregate at a half-siblings reunion, though the patriarch himself never attends.