Vincent Van Gogh’s London home opens to the public

A small side road in Stockwell is the unlikely spot for an artistic great, the home, for a while of Vincent Van Gogh.
Born in the Netherlands, Vincent was always interested in art as a child, but was never expected to be an artist. He trained though as an art dealer, and in 1873 he ended up in London, working for a relative who owned an art dealership. He was modestly successful as a dealer, and a lot of surviving letters clearly show that he loved living in London.
He took lodgings in a room in