Vincent van Gogh’s Early Years

VINCENT VAN GOGH’S EARLY YEARS Vincent van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1853.

Many people in his family worked in the art world. Vincent had two brothers and three

sisters, but he was closest to his younger brother Theo. Vincent enjoyed

drawing from the time he was a young boy, but he had a number of other jobs before

he decided to work as an artist full time. He was a teacher in London and he

also worked in a bookstore and an art gallery. When Vincent first started drawing,

he used pencils and watercolour paints as well. He liked to draw pictures of poor

people. At the beginning of his career, he used a lot of dark colours and