Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, North Brabant, Holland on March 30, 1853. Van Gogh spent his whole childhood in North Brabant, where the whole area was vast flat land covered in corn fields and sandy heath. From 1860 Van Gogh went to the school in the village of Zundert. Despite doing well his father took him and his sister Anne away to be taught by a governess. In October 1864 he was then sent to a boarding school 20 miles away. After completing elementary school in 1866, he moved onto a middle school in Tilburg. Less than 2 years later he left the school in 1868. In 18…
