![]() ![]() In 1879 he started work as a missionary in the Borinage coal-mining district of Belgium, where he began to draw and paint. His religious zeal growing, he started studying theology in Amsterdam, but failed two exams. He returned to England, working as an unpaid voluntary teacher, then assisting a Methodist minister. Although successful there, when moved to Paris, he became increasingly resentful of art being traded as a commodity, and was sacked. He was trained as an art dealer with Goupil, and sent to their London branch in 1873. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was born and raised the oldest surviving son of a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, in a village in the southern Netherlands. ![]() Indeed, some types of tree such as the cypress are very strongly associated with him. ![]() However, he started and ended his career as a landscape artist, and painted a large number of highly innovative representations of trees. Van Gogh painted in several genres, and is now perhaps best-known for his floral still lifes. Of the post-Impressionists, he remains the most popular today, his paintings drawing crowds wherever they go on display. Vincent van Gogh’s career as an artist was brief, intense, only successful long after his death, but of enormous influence. ![]()
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