He reportedly lives in Essen, as did his brother Theo until the latter's death.
Luckily he had the support of his brother Theo and a doctor for whom he painted pictures.
His brother Theo was a year ahead of him at the same school.
(His devoted brother Theo would later follow him into the business with considerably more success.)
In the spring he moved to Paris, saving money by living with his brother Theo, an art dealer.
He asked his brother Theo to frame and send one of the paintings to an art dealer in the Netherlands.
In my book, I'm going to prove that his brother Theo did the paintings.
He wrote to his brother Theo, "I believe that there are real opportunities for portraiture here.
After the paintings, it's the almost nightly letters to his brother Theo that pop into your mind.
Reading these letters it becomes all too clear that this was why his brother Theo -undertook to support him to be an artist.