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OCR: LIFE Gogh, Vincent van (1853-1890). Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. He tried various careers, including preaching, and began painting in the 1880s, his early works often being somber depictions of peasant life, such as "The Potato Eaters" (1885, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). Influenced by both the Impressionists and Japanese prints, he developed a freer style characterized by intense color and expressive brushwork, as seen in his "Sunflowers" series ( 1888). Gogh Born in Zundert, van Gogh worked for a time as a schoolmaster in England before he took up painting. He studied under Antoine Mauve in The Hague, and briefly in Antwerp, before moving to Paris in 1886, where his brother Theo worked as an art dealer.