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Which painters influenced Vincent van Gogh while he worked for Goupil and Co.?
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Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait, oil on artist's board on cradled panel by Vincent van Gogh, 1887; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
While working for the art dealers Goupil and Co. in London and Paris between 1873 and 1876, Vincent van Gogh developed an appreciation for several artists through his daily contact with their work.
He formed a particular taste for Dutch masters such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals. However, his strongest preference was for two contemporary French painters, Jean-François Millet and Camille Corot, whose influence on his artistic sensibility lasted throughout his life.1