people and nature is the essence of Vincent Van Gogh's extremely prolific but tragically short career.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor

and eldest of six children. His favorite brother Theo was four years younger. When Vincent was twelve to

sixteen years old, he went to a boarding school. That next year he was sent to The Hague to work for an

uncle who was an art dealer, but van Gogh was unsuited for a business career. Actually, his early interests

were in literature and religion. Very dissatisfied with the way people made money and imbued with a

strong sense of mission, he worked for a while as a lay preacher among proverty-stricken miners. Van

Gogh represented the religious society that trained him in a poor coal-mining district in Belgium. Vincent

took his work so seriously that he went without food and other necessities so he could give more to the

poor. The missionary society objected to Vincent's behavior and fired him in 1879. Heartsick, van Gogh

struggled to keep going socially and fin!

It was through his brother Theo and an art gallery devoted to living artists that he discovered the

cosmopolitan bustle of the city as Manet, Monet, Renoir, and the others had been twenty years before him.

patch, but painting continued to be a vessel for his personal emotions. To investigate this spiritual reality

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