Lorna, her six sisters and her two brothers grew up at Oakeswell Hall, Wednesbury, and then became prominent in the Bohemian Bloomsbury set in London between the two world wars.
Her character may be summed up in this quotation from Cressida Connolly: Lorna, the baby of the family, was perhaps the most flamboyant of the fabulous Garmans.
5, went riding on her horse at night, drove a chocolate-brown Bentley, and would strip naked to swim in inviting lakes or rivers or 10-metre waves.
She also brought him objects such as a dead heron and a zebra head for him to insert in his paintings.
Both Lee and Freud went on to marry nieces of Lorna's, respectively Kathy Polge and Kitty Garman.