1.   Last year in London the estate of the British figurative painter Francis Bacon charged his gallery, Marlborough International Fine Art, with systematically defrauding it.

2.   Other works explored the connections between art and action, and included studies of Spinoza, Leibniz, Proust, Kafka and Francis Bacon, the British painter.

3.   Right now, for instance, he is polishing up a biography of J.M.W. Turner, the British painter.

4.   The British painter was lauded for his excessive, even hellish, paintings of humanity.

5.   The first comprehensive account in a generation of the great British painter.

6.   The quick-witted, soft-spoken British painter, who is the dean of the school, came up with the idea in order to kick-start his students.

7.   A British painter who made a career of fooling the art world has died in a Rome hospital, leaving the last hours of his life a mystery.

8.   In real life, the father, who never married her mother, is noted British painter Lucian Freud.

9.   The celebrated British painter, who has worked principally with the Royal Opera, has sworn off designing operas, saying the companies lack vision.