Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Vincent Van Gogh and me, paining Churchill Tavern in Ramsgate

There have been several renditions of one or the other of the Van Gogh sketches of Ramsgate having a short airing on Facebook during the last day.



As far as I know there are only two, these are fairly good copies that will expand and haven’t been seriously cropped or messed with in other ways. 



The building that is now Churchill Tavern was built in 1864 and features in both sketches.

Vincent lost his job as an art dealer in Paris in 1876 and got a job in Ramsgate from April of that year. The job was teaching in a boys school, there was no pay but he got a room and food. He wasn’t here for long as the school where he worked moved from Ramsgate to Isleworth in June of the same year and Vincent moved with the school.
Was he sketching from Westcliff Gardens or did he have a room in The Regency?

I tried to find other paintings, sketches or drawings of the same place but could only find the ones I had done myself a couple of years ago and both of these were of the inside.  

Here are the books that came in the bookshop today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/soul-travel-in-bookshop.html although you won’t be able to buy them tomorrow as we are closed on a Thursday  


   
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1 comment:

  1. N.LONDONER - NOT STH OF THE RIVEROctober 15, 2016 10:09 am

    Lovely photos of Ramsgate long long ago.
    What a great shame it has denegrated into a rubbish tip - human and industrial.
    Albion Gardens, once a haven - now a hangout for drunks, drug dealers and their clients, inebriated school children on a Friday afternoon.
    Where is TDC . - Cant't they afford broom and its operator, THANK YOU TO THE VOLUNTEERS WHO CLEAN THE AREA UP. - plenty of money for fireworks though.

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.