Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was an astound artist in the last ten years of his short life. He began his creative career when he was already twenty-seven years old and died at the young age of thirty-seven. He traveled a lot during his petite life. His artwork, mental illness, and life continue to be a topic for media, art students, and the general public alike. Theodorus van Gogh, a minister, and Anna Carbentus, a bookseller, gave birth to Vincent on March 30, 1853 (“Heilbrunn Timeline…”). When he was seven years old, he left home to attend a boarding school in Zevenbergen. At thirteen, he attended secondary school in Tilburg and later dropped out of school. When he was sixteen, he began working from his Uncle Vincent, or “Cent” for short, as an Art Dealer in training. Uncle Cent transferred Vincent to Brixton, London in 1872 and then to Paris in 1875. He lost interest in selling artwork …show more content…
“He is supposed to have staggered nearly 2km back across the fields to the inn where he was staying with a gunshot wound to his chest. … This version does not tally with letters in which Van Gogh opposed suicide as a ``cowardly act''. Nor does it explain why the easel and brushes he had taken to the fields with him that day, not to mention a gun, were never found. And why would he shoot himself in the chest rather than the head, and having failed to get a clean shot, why did he not fire a second bullet?” (Ben). Instead of suicide, van Gogh could have been shot by a teenager (Nickell). Two teenagers sometimes spent time with him in that field. They had been seen drinking with van Gogh several times around the same hour and, at times, would dress in cow-boy attire with a pistol (“Van Gogh Did Not Kill Himself…”). As he could have been attached to these boys, he may have covered for the boys telling Theo and police that it was a suicide attempt (Nickell). The truth will never be known for certain either which