Vincent van Gogh was born March 30th, 1853, in Groot Zundert, in the north Brabant region of the Netherlands. He lived there until he was 16 years old.
             When Vincent was 20 he was promoted to Goupil's London branch and moved to England. He started to work at a schoolhouse when he was 25 years old. He really didn't like that job because he didn't receive enough money, so he returned to Holland on December 1786 to work in a bookstore.
             In 1878 he moved to Borinage where he began to work as a lay preacher. Soon after he became a preacher, he started to draw in earnest. In 1881 he moved in with his parents in Etten. He grew up in the country side. That is why some say he drew hills regularly in some drawings. Later in 1881 he moved to the Hague where he took painting lessons from a famous painter named Anton Mauve, the cousin of Van Gogh's father.
             Vincent van Gogh was supposed to have six sisters and two brothers, but his older brother Corneilous died a very tragic suicidal death. Vincent had another brother named Theo. Vincent liked Theo a lot. He was his favorite brother. Vincent's mother's name was Anna Carbentus van Gogh. Her father was a bookseller at his own bookstore. Vincent's father's name was Theodorus van Gogh. He was a reverend. Vincent's sisters' names were Anna, Elizabeth, and Wilhelmien. Anna was two years younger than Vincent and Vincent and her were fairly good friends. Theo was two years younger than Anna. Elizabeth was also two years younger than Vincent and though they weren't very close ,she made a book of her thoughts about him and published it in 1910. Wilhelmien , Vincent's other sister, was nine years younger than Vincent. Vincent had a very big family.
             Vincent van Gogh had many hard times in his life. He took a medicine called Fox Glove. One of the side effects was you saw mostly yellow and gold. That is why people thought most of his paintings had yellow and gold colors in th...