...entury letter-writing culture, and about the financial positions of Theo, Vincent and their parents.
...ok up his living in 1822, his seventh child, Theodorus, was nine months old, and four more children ...
Theodorus and his brother Vincent (Uncle Cent) were particularly close, and this bond was strengthene...
... a member of the wealthy middle class, while Theodorus belonged to the lower middle class.Uncle Cent...
...rdener as well as a kitchen-maid (FR b2924); Theodorus and Anna had a maidservant and someone who ca...
...ent was is revealed in a letter from the Reverend Van Gogh to Theo of 1874: ‘I also believe that w...
...e Cent’s influence continued unabated, and Theodorus consulted his brother in Princenhage his whol...
... love of one’s fellow-man. Mietje, the Reverend Van Gogh’s youngest sister, observed, undoubtedl...
The family of Theodorus van Gogh (1822-1885) and Anna Carbentus (1819-1907) was an ordinary nineteent...
Theodorus went to the Latin School in Breda. Despite poor health, he succeeded in studying theology i...
The modest livings occupied by the Reverend Van Gogh, who attached great importance to ethical behavi...
...ven years after leaving the village, the Reverend Van Gogh said after visiting it again: ‘What a d...
FR b2222, Mr Van Gogh to Theo, 18 April 1876.
...68, Mrs Van Gogh to Theo, 25 March 1885). The parents clearly believed that they had to give all six...
...he village cheaper, but also because the Reverend Van Gogh considered it a duty to accept the living...
FR b2351, the Reverend Van Gogh to Theo, 30 July 1875. There is a good summation of the nineteenth-ce...
In Etten, the Reverend Van Gogh was paid 960 guilders a year, with an additional 75 guilders for prea...
Although the parents wanted the very best for all their children, and were constantly warning them ab...
On 30 May 1879, the Reverend Van Gogh sent Theo a clipping from a magazine about the dangers of prost...
When the children left their parents’ house they were given the following prayer to guide them on t...
...get along in real life’ (FR b2733, the Reverend Van Gogh to Theo, 18 November 1874). For the young...
...nd for Anna’s poetry album FR b4415. The Reverend Van Gogh quoted De Génestet’s poems, adding h...
FR b2788, the Reverend Van Gogh to Theo, 28 October 1876.
...80-1881 tensions arose between Vincent and his father, and lasted until the latter’s death in 1885....
Cf. ‘Pa’s spirit is so great and many-sided, and at all events I hope that something of it will d...
Hulsker 1993-2, p. 72. The Reverend Van Gogh urged devoutness with the following words: ‘Truly Theo...
Theo, who was named after his father, was the apple of his parents’ eye. Significantly, even at the...
... named after his father, was the apple of his parents’ eye. Significantly, even at the age of 16 h...
...had ‘that wonderful pleasure’ and did his parents credit, and he soon realized it. The first sig...
The Reverend Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 19 February 1885: ‘Pity that Vincent doesn’t join in any m...
...children had to succeed in society, and their parents encouraged that in every way they could. The o...
...nly be all kinds of odd fish among them’ (FR b2512, the Reverend Van Gogh to Theo, 14 March 1877).
...clever’ and ‘respectable’. As the Reverend Van Gogh wrote to Theo: ‘May God bless you for y...
...cult task for the children not to cause their parents any sorrow. In 1877, for instance, there was a...
... the working class, much to the horror of his parents and Theo. The latter was the role model in the...
...dealer and had a respectable income. After his father’s death, the key members of the family were T...