On March 30, 1853 a boy was born to the family of a Dutch village vicar, Theodorus van Gogh (1822-1885) and his wife Anne Cornelia, nèe Carbentus (1819-1907). A year before, exactly the same day, another boy was born to the family, he died, and now the new-born received his name: Vincent Willem van Gogh. After getting school education, van Gogh started his career as a picture salesman: in The Hague (1869) he entered the branch office of the Paris art dealer Goupil & Cie, founded originally by his uncle Vincent. As an agent of the company he worked in its branches in Brussels (1873), London (1873), Paris (1875). But his personal disappointment increased and he left Goupil. Van Gogh tried himself as a teacher in Ramsgate near London (April-December 1876), then he worked as an apprentice lay preacher and wanted to devote his life to evangelization of the poor.
August 1882. Oil on cardboad. Private collection.
August 1882. Oil on paper on cardboard. Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
September 1882. Watercolor. Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
January 1883. Black chalk and ink. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands.
May 1884. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo.
November 1884. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands.
May 1885. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands.
November 1885. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands.
April 1885. Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
April 1885. Oil on canvas. Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
March 1885. Oil on canvas on panel. Foundation E.G. Bührle collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
April 1885. Oil on canvas. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
1885. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
1885. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
October 1886. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Autumn 1886. Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Summer 1886. Oil on canvas. Oscar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland.
1886. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands.
1886. Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Basle.
1886. Oil on canvas. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA.
Henri Perruchot. La vie de Van Gogh. Hachette. Paris. 1957.
Vincent van Gogh. Correspondence. Moscow-Leningrad. 1966.
Van Gogh. by Ye. Murina. Moscow. 1978.
Vincent van Gogh. His Personality and Art. by N. Dmitrieva. Moscow. 1980.
Painters of Montmartre. by Illana Soldea. Bucharest. 1986.
Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh, Irving Stone (Editor), Jean Stone (Editor). Plume, 1995.
Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Albert J. Lubin. DaCapo Press, 1996.
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam by Richard Kendall, Vincent Van Gogh, John Leighton, Van Gogh Museum. Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1998.
Vincent Van Gogh: 1853-1890, Vision and Reality (Basic Art) by Ingo F. Walther. TASCHEN America Llc, 2000.
Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Albert J. Lubin. DaCapo Press, 1996.
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South by Douglas Druick, Peter Kort Zegers. Thames & Hudson, 2001
Van Gogh and Friends Art Game: With Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Rousseau and Toulouse-Lautrec by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly. Birdcage Books, 2002.