When was anna cornelia carbentus born

When Anna turned 30 she was still unmarried and felt a more urgent need to find a suitable husband soon. He also had a sibling that was behind in the marriage situation, a younger brother named Theodorus van Gogh , a preacher.

The two seemed well suited for each other and both were eager to wed. Shortly after meeting, an engagement was announced. Anna was said to have been a pleasant wife and a good mother to their six children.

She was a good helpmate to Theodorus and supported his work in the ministry. She not only worked hard for their family but took the time to visit the parishioners along with her husband. She was a lively, spirit-filled woman with much energy. When separation was inevitable letters to each other poured back and forth. Anna was not a physically affectionate mother but instead used her words to affirm the family and profess her love. He was a good student, but, according to his sister, his choice of clothing and his eating habits and solitary nature made him appear slightly strange to others from a young age.

Vincent attended the local village school for academics and the parsonage for religious education from until From to he attended a boarding school in Zevenbergen, where he studied English, French, and German before transferring to a new high school in Tilburg. He left the Tilburg school in the middle of his second year there, probably because the cost of room, board and tuition there proved too much of a financial strain for his middle-class family.

The Tilburg school had a well- respected art teacher, but Vincent showed no inclination toward art as a child, and his eccentricities did not manifest themselves in a particularly creative or artistic manner.

Any creative potential was apparently completed sublimated or not yet developed—a few of his early drawings survive, and although they show a modest talent for realistic rendering and copying the works of others, they are in no way outstanding or unusual for a child of his age. After spending an undocumented year at home, on July 30, , sixteen-year old Vincent was sent to The Hague to work as a junior clerk in the art firm of Goupil and Company, an international firm that dealt in contemporary work as well as early nineteenth- and eighteenth-century art and photographic prints and reproductions of famous pieces.

She had to leave her native city, her friends, her background. She had her first child at 31 years old. Anna is described as kind and mild, virtuous, devout, reserved, dedicating her life to her family. According to Jo Theo's wife , "the mother deeply loved nature, she knew how to express her feelings through writing. Her hands were always working for the others.