Nude With Dog: Freud Model Is Still Posing, 2 1/2 Years Later

David Dawson starts work at 8 a.m., sitting naked on the floor with his whippet, Eli.

For the past two and a half years he has been posing for a large, still unfinished painting by Lucian Freud. Dawson holds the same position, seven days a week. There are moments, he says, “when you think it’s just not going to end.”