5. He was a prolific self-portraitist; he completed his first self-portrait in 1939, and his final one 64 years later. This has led to comparisons of other famous historical self-portraitists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh and Egon Schiele. Twenty-one Facts About Lucien Freud – Sotheby’s, 2-18-19
