Vincent Van Gogh was a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter born in 1853 in the Netherlands. He painted almost 900 paintings between 1881-1890 before dying by suicide at the age of 37. Some of his most famous paintings include The Starry Night, which depicts the night sky over a small town, and The Potato Eaters, which shows five people eating potatoes by the light of an oil lamp. Van Gogh is now considered one of the most famous painters in the world and his paintings have captured the hearts of millions of art lovers.