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Vincent van Gogh Biography!
Vincent van Gogh Biography
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, - July 29, ) was born on 30 March in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. He was the eldest son of the Reverend Theodorus van Gogh ( - ) and Anna Cornelia Carbentus ( - ), whose other children were Vincent's sisters Elisabeth, Anna, and Wil, and his brother Theo and Cor.
Little is known about Vincent's early years other than that he was a quiet child with no obvious artistic talent.
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He himself would later look back on his happy childhood with great pleasure.
Van Gogh received a fragmentary education: one year at the village school in Zundert, two years at a boarding school in Zevenbergen, and eighteen months at a high school in Tilburg.
At sixteen he began working at the Hague gallery of the French art dealers Goupil et Cie., in which his uncle Vincent was a partner. His brother Theo, who was born 1 May , later worked for the same firm. In Goupil's transferred Vincent to London, and two years later