Vincent van Gogh (Russell painting) Vincent van Gogh" (1887) and Paul Gauguin's "The Painter of Sunflowers" (1888). Van Gogh seems to have been particularly attached to Russell's portrait, which the Australian gifted to him as a mark of their friendship. The painting passed from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, then to their family, and is now in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Russell was born into a wealthy engineering family in 1858 in Sydney, New South Wales. The family business, P.N. Russell & Co, was responsible for much of the city's 19th-century ironwork. Although Russell had a strong interest
Van Gogh Museum van Gogh. The main exhibition chronicles the various phases of Van Gogh's artistic life. His selected works from Nuenen (1880–1885): His selected works from Antwerp (1886): His selected works from Paris (1886–1888): His selected works from Arles (1888–1889): His selected works from Saint-Rémy (1889–1890): And his selected works from Auvers-sur-Oise (1890): The permanent collection also includes nine of the artist's self-portraits and some of his earliest paintings dating back to 1882. The museum also features notable art works by Van Gogh's contemporaries in the Impressionist and post-Impressionist movements and holds extensive exhibitions on various subjects from 19th Century art history.