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What fascinates me much, much more than anything else in my métier is the portrait, the modern portrait . . . I should like to do portraits which will appear as revelations to people in 100 years time."

- VINCENT VAN GOGH, 1890



What could be a more disturbing image than the one of Vincent Van Gogh as the wanderer? Of his time spent in poverty and isolation he sought to help those around him, and perhaps to find himself in the process. Picture Vincent as he gives his first Sunday sermon in Isleworth, outside of London. He was so passionate about his beliefs, but never really connected with the religious world. His sermon must have really been something.

Van gogh traveled to Brussels on foot to seek counsel from Pastor Pietersen at the evangelical college. He had no more than the a few sketches and the clothes on his back, but he needed guidance in his overwhelming desire to help others. Van gogh's wanderings were not always religiously motivated. Another great image was......

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