“At the moment I quite often go to draw with Breitner [in the streets of The Hague], a young painter who's acquainted with Rochussen as I am with Mauve. He draws very skilfully and very differently from me, and we often draw types together in the soup kitchen or the waiting room &c. He sometimes comes to my studio to look at woodcuts, and I go to see the ones he has as well.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

In his letter to his brother Theo, from The Hague, Monday, 13 February 1882, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let204/letter.html, from the original letter; location and translation: Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam]]
1880s, 1882

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Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890

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early quote of Breitner in his letter to his Maecenas A.P. van Stolk, 11 April 1878; original text in RKD-Archive, The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/585
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