![]() ![]() In an 1874 letter to his younger brother and confidante, Theo, Vincent admits that “my interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I’ll be in the mood again some day. ![]() A look at his letters from this time, and throughout his short but productive life, shows that even before he began to devote himself to painting, he was gathering layers of experience that provided a way of seeing far beyond the inspiration that the works of painters he encountered provided him-much of his influence at the time, we learn, came not from British artists but from literary sources. ![]() This period is the subject of the Tate Britain’s current exhibition, “Van Gogh and Britain,” focusing on the painter’s time in London and the various influences he encountered while there as well as the impact Van Gogh had on British artists through the 1950s.įrom his time in London, it would be another seven years before Van Gogh decided to pursue his calling as a painter, but, as the exhibition makes clear in a variety of ways, these early days were critical toward his laying a foundation for it. In the summer of 1873, twenty-year-old Vincent van Gogh arrived in London, eager to continue his work with the international art dealers Goupil & Cie for the next three years, he would live and work primarily in England. ![]()
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