Vincent van Gogh · every age
What was Vincent van Gogh doing at 28?
Started painting at 27, left 2,100 works in ten years
- Apr 1881
Moved back in with his parents at Etten
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Aug 1881
Fell for his widowed cousin Kee Vos-Stricker
She refused him; in November he wrote her father a letter he called an attack.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Jan 1882
Met Sien, a pregnant prostitute, and took her in
In The Hague; his teacher Mauve went cold on him by March.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 28
Portrait: Self-portrait: Vincent van Gogh (1887), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source