Vincent Willem van Gogh (; (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a
Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had far-reaching influence on
20th-century art. His paintings include
portraits,
self portraits, landscapes,
still lifes,
olive trees and cypresses,
wheat fields and
sunflowers. Van Gogh was born to upper middle class parents and spent his early adulthood working for a firm of
art dealers before traveling to The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England at
Isleworth and
Ramsgate. He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; most of his best-known works were completed during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.