Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh Museum opened in the Museumplein in Amsterdam in 1973. It became the second most popular museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum, regularly receiving more than 1.5 million visitors a year. In 2015 it had a record 1.9 million; 85 percent of the visitors come from other countries. Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of
Vincent van Gogh (Russell painting) Gauguin", and said it captured one of the Dutchman's quirks: Also in the 1930s, Hartrick created an ink and watercolour sketch of Van Gogh that he likely based on Russell's portrait. Today, specialists agree that Russell's portrait offers the most realistic likeness of Van Gogh. In 2012, Brigitte Banziger and David Hulme argued that, while paintings such as Tom Roberts' "Shearing the Rams" (1890) or Frederick McCubbin's "Down on His Luck" (1889) are often called "Australia's most famous painting", Russell's "Vincent van Gogh" may be more deserving of the title due to its global reputation. Books Journals Vincent van Gogh