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\\u201cThe painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have.\\u201d So said the celebrated artist Lucian Freud. His biographer William Feaver tells Andrew Marr how Freud\\u2019s work revealed not only something about the subject of the painting, but also what the artist was feeling. The two are combined in a new exhibition of Freud\\u2019s self-portraits in which the painter turns his unflinching eye on himself.

In 2006 the artist Humphrey Ocean started making a series of portraits of visitors to his studio. Using simple forms and bold colours the painter illuminated something unique about each person. Ocean is the RA Schools\\u2019 Professor of Perspective and his work details his observations of everyday life.

The underbelly of everyday life in the 18th century is very much in evidence in William Hogarth\\u2019s work. As an exhibition at Sir John Soane\\u2019s Museum brings together all Hogarth\\u2019s painted series for the first time, the art critic Kate Grandjouan explains what he reveals about people from all strata of society, in a London devoid of morality.

Producer: Katy Hickman