Born in the south of the Netherlands, near the Belgian border. Vincent's father was Theodorus van Gogh, born on 8 February 1822, a pastor of the Reformed Church, and his mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus, the daughter of a bookbinder and bookseller from The Hague. Vincent was the second of seven children of Theodorus and Anna Cornelia. He was named after his paternal grandfather, who also devoted his entire life to the Protestant Church. This ...