In July of 1869 Vincent left to become an apprentice to Goupil's art dealers at The Hangue. He worked there for four years then was transferred in January to the Brussels branch of Goupil's. Then in June Van Gogh went to the London branch where they specialized in the reproductive engravings and photographs of old masters and contemporary artists and their paintings.

After being dismissed from Goulip's in Paris he became a voracious reader and letters to his brother show the increasing involvement of religious matters. In April 1876 he returned to England to take a teaching post in Ramstage. Later on he moved to become a teacher and a lay preacher at Isleworth, a city near London. Not staying there long he went back to Holland where his father was transferred to Etten. Vincent found a job in a bookshop were he was reported for spending most of his time drawing and translating

One of these paintings is "The Starry Night"; it was painted in June 1889. In a letter to his brother Theo he wrote, " I hardly think impressionism will ever do more than the Romantics. This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big. Daubingy and Rousse have done just that, expressing all that it has of intimacy, all that vast peace and majesty, but at the same time a feeling of individual, so heart-breaking. I have no aversion to that sort of emotion." Not really understanding what Van Gogh meant by that; I think that he was trying to say that he did not want to be like them, he wanted to paint his own picture from his own mind. He was not going to except the way they saw the moon and the stars he wanted them to be seen through his eyes as well. A few days after writing the letter to his brother he painted his "The Starry Night". It is one of his boldest and most deliberate masterpieces (Petrie, VI).

the Bible into French and German and English. Continuing his education he went to Amsterdam to study for his matriculation in the theological faculty of the University.

He moved down to the coal-mining district of the Broniage in southern Belgium. Here work as a temporary lay preacher, he held bible classes. While he was here Van Gogh lived a lie of self-denial and was dismissed from the grounds. So Vincent Van Gogh moved agai

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