Vincent van Gogh
The story
Vincent van Gogh in dark clothes, looking straight at the viewer with the words "painter" and "friendship" faintly written above his head. The Australian painter John Russell met Van Gogh in Paris in 1886 — this is the earliest known portrait of Van Gogh painted from life by a friend.
- Artist
- John Peter Russell
- Year
- 1886
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Van Gogh Museum
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
