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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh (c. 22 June 1888) ... resemblance than the photographer's.
However, at the present moment I look different,
insofar as I am wearing neither hair nor beard, the same having been
shaved off clean. Furthermore, my complexion has changed from
green-greyish-pink to greyish-orange,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 25 July 1888) ... with
sheep for chocolate boxes.
Not only my pictures but I myself have become haggard of
late, almost like Hugo van der Goes in the picture by Emil
Wauters.
Only, having got my whole beard carefully shaved off I think
that I am as much like... | Article by Dr. M. B. Medes da Costa (December 2 1910) ... master and pupil, was very pleasant indeed. The
seemingly reticent young man - our ages differed but little,
for I was twenty-six then, and he was undoubtedly over twenty -
immediately felt at home, and notwithstanding his lank reddish
hair and his many freckles,... | Article by M. J. Brusse (May 26 1914) ... I cannot say I was particularly interested.
No, he was not an attractive
boy, with those small, narrowed, peering eves of his and, in fact,
he was always a bit unsociable.
“And then I remember well that he always preferred to
wear a top hat,... | Newspaper article (April 12 1922) ... me with the following particulars.
One day the Reverend Mr. Van Gogh, from a small town in
Brabant, appeared at the school and introduced a sandy-haired,
somewhat round-shouldered young man who wanted to be a
pupil.... He was accepted.
Soon... | Article by Benno J. Stokvis (1926) ... he was highly
respected by the farmers. When he set off for work, he
generally wore a sort of raincoat and a sou'wester. In general
his attire was rough [“raw”]. Every day he might be
seen walking with a small campstool under one arm and a square
... | Newspaper article by D. Gestel (10 October 1930) ... the Roman Catholic Church at
Nuenen…There he was standing before us, that short,
square-built little man, called by the rustics “het
schildermenneke,” “the little painter
fellow.” His sunburned, weather-beaten face was framed... | Exerpt from La vie tragique de Vincent van Gogh (1939) ... remember well his
arrival at Pâturages; he was a blond young man of
medium stature and with a pleasant face; he was well dressed,
had excellent manners, and showed in his personal appearance
all the characteristics of Dutch cleanliness.
... | Article by Dr. M. E. Tralbaut (1948) ... of November 13, 1927, Tralbaut, p. 140):
And there Van Gogh appeared on the scene - the Van Gogh, who
was the spitting image of the portrait the Englishman Levens
made of him, and which was reproduced in the first number of
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