3dRose Van Gogh Mulberry Tree - Greeting Cards, 6 x 6 inches, set of 6 (gc_48249_1)

You're watching FreeSchool! Today we're going to learn about the famous artist, Vincent van Gogh. Born in 1853, Vincent van Gogh was a 19th century Dutch painter. Dutch is the word for people from the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a small country in Western Europe. When he was a young man, van Gogh traveled to France, England, and Belgium, but near the end of his life he moved to France. Although van Gogh began to draw when he a child, he did not start painting until he was in his late twenties and many of his best paintings were only done in the last two years of his life, before his death at the age of 37. His work is very famous now, but while he was alive most people didn't want his paintings. Vincent van Gogh made over 900 paintings while he was alive, but we only know about one that someone wanted to buy. His first really good paintings were dark and serious. At the time, peop