Vincent van Gogh was an influential artist during the nineteenth century.
Widely believed to have been struggling with depression and insanity, he went out to a nearby field and shot himself in the chest, before stumbling back to his house where his brother Theo cared for him for two days, before he finally died.
Although he had sent a letter to Theo only three days earlier, he was carrying another letter to his brother on his person at the time of his suicide, largely seen as a suicide note.
Van Gogh severed his own ear with a razor in 1888 | The Courtauld Gallery London
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