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Right), born 1 May 1857, in Groot-Zundert, was on more than Vincent's it was he who, by his ever-loyal only brother; support, enabled Vincent his work clear Amsterdam they CHAPTER and it be respected, his welcomed him and gave him help and Theo not in a of his devotion to uncles rallied around him. In (left), which studies, Gogh was his son. Since Vincent's vocation that a family tradition to to exist. I advice. 32 APOSTLESHIP AND DRAWING Uncle Jan (Johannes), who was the director of the naval Amsterdam, was a widower.
Any qualification was an Anton Mauve, one of the leaders of The Hague School. THE DETERMINATION TO PAINT insult, any criticism a condemnation. This led 55 to disagreements, bad feeling, and lawsuits. Gradually, models Vincent. " March his came to pose drew: "I work, little I more drudge, money he had went I regularly for grind all day to the models. In Uncle Cornells commissioned him to do of twelve pen-and-ink drawings, views of The a Fishing Boat on the Beach near Hague. 50 florins for each of these Scheveningen, by Anton and thus received 30 florins he had not counted on.
He visited another painter, Theophile de Bock, who, even though he was convinced that Vincent had the temperament of a painter, advised to draw more workers within the body of a letter he wrote to him Theo in October 1881. figures. On his way back to Etten, Vincent passed through Dordrecht solely in order to draw a row of windmills, and upon his return, he began drawing figures again. For Vincent, drawing implied learning to concentrate: "Diggers, sowers, planters, male and female, they are what I must draw continually.