John Peter RussellAustralian, 1858–1930Vincent van Gogh
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Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Vincent van Gogh is an 1886 oil on canvas portrait painting by Australian artist John Russell. It depicts Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, who befriended Russell after meeting him at Fernand Cormon's atelier in Paris, which they both attended. Painted in a realist and academic manner, the portrait shows hints of the impressionist techniques that Russell and Van Gogh began experimenting with in the latter half of the 1880s.
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It is the earliest of three portraits painted of Van Gogh from life by his contemporaries, the other two being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) and Paul Gauguin's The Painter of Sunflowers (1888). Van Gogh seems to have been particularly attached to Russell's portrait, which the Australian gifted to him as a mark of their friendship. The painting passed from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, then to their family, and is now in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Particulars
- Accession number
- s0273V1962
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Van Gogh Museum — John Peter Russell · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
