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| | Vincent Van Gogh |
 | | incent van Gogh was born on March 30th, 1853 to Theodorus van Gogh, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus, in Zundert, a village in Brabant, in the Netherlands. |
 | | Vincent's first exposure to the art world was when he worked at the Hague gallery of the French art dealers Goupil and Co., which had been established by his uncle Vincent. |
 | | van Gogh's fascination with the poor, and the working class were the subject of many of his early works, the first, a series he painted while Drenthe, in the northeastern Netherlands, followed by a series of 40 portraits he painted. |
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