The Journal

Ask most people what they know about Van Gogh, and they’ll offer perhaps two or three facts about the artistic genius – he was a Dutch painter, he cut one of his ears off and Don McClean sang a song about him back in the 1970s. Hopefully, they could name some of the artist’s most famous paintings, certainly ‘Sunflowers’ and perhaps ‘The Starry Night’. But there’s a wealth of information that reveals Van Gogh to be a complex character, as one would expect.