The Slade School of Fine Arts was founded by Felix Slade in 1871. Felix Slade created this school with the intentions of it being a school for art within a liberal arts university. Also, the Slade School allowed women to study at the same level and terms as men which was not common at the time.

 Lucian Freud worked at this school for about 5 years. During Freud’s time working as a visiting lecturer at the Slade school is when he was introduced to a dense paint called Cremnitz White. Cremnitz White is a type of oil paint that is a fast-drying paint that is an opaque white with a reddish-yellow undertone. He decided that this paint would be ideal for painting flesh tones and thus began his work with nude paintings. The first full-length nude painting he created was in 1963 of his eldest daughter, Annie Freud. The painting was titled A Naked Child Laughing. Without the Slade school, Freud may never have discovered this paint and the Naked Girl painting may never have been created. Also, Freud's time tutoring at the Slade School was when he truly started to mature in his art and began to focus mainly on portraits and nude paintings. The style of creating thickly textured paintings with large brush strokes and various colors of flesh tones that he developed during his time at the Slade School is what he is arguably most known for now.