Lucian Freud portrait of Queen Elizabeth causes a stir

[Katherine Annon]

I think that it's very consistent with Freud's other portraiture. Like it or not, it seems honestly communicated in his "voice". Which is all that any of us can do, yes? Just an observation from someone who greatly enjoys his portraiture, as well as that of Stanley Spencer, Egon Schiele, Romaine Brooks, Klimt, Beckmann, and so on and so forth...