Valkis, Willem Marinus (1853–1935), boarder with Willem Marinus Roos in The Hague, 79, 83
Vautier (the Elder), Benjamin (1829–1898), Swiss artist, 17, 267, 359
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (1599–1660), Spanish artist, 450, 515, 603, 632, 651, 686, 801
Velden, Petrus (Piet) van der (1837–1913), Dutch artist, 278, 361
Verdier, Lucien Aimé Antoine (1813–?), owner of the Yellow House in Arles, 743
Verdier, Marcel-Antoine (1817–1856), French artist, 726
Verkissen, François Antoine (1839–1881), mustard manufacturer in Saint-Gilles, 148
Verlat, Charles (Karel) Michel Marie (1824–1890), Belgian artist, director of the Antwerp academy, 552, 555, 558
Vermeer, Johannes (Jan) (1632–1675), Dutch artist, 325, 434, 534, 625, 642, 651, 655, 683, 779
Verne, Jules Gabriel (1828–1905), French writer, 361
Vernier, Emile Louis (1829–1887), French artist, 3, 839
Veronese, Paolo (Paolo Caliari) (c. 1528–1609), Italian artist, 537, 552, 595, 626, 650, 665, 677, 686, 689, 695, 739, 740, 752, 779, 863
Verschuur, Wouterus (Wouter) (1812–1874), Dutch artist, 164
Viaud, Louis Marie Julien. See Loti, Pierre
Vierge, Daniel Urrabieta. See Urrabieta Vierge, Daniel
Vignon, Victor Alfred Paul (1847–1909), French artist, 592, 631, 689, 801
Vinck, Frans (François) Kasper Huibrecht (1827–1903), Belgian artist, 555
Vintcent-De Lezenne Greve, Cornelia Wilhelmina (1822–1876), acquaintance of the Van Gogh family in The Hague, 88
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel (1814–1879), French architect, 158, 164
Voerman Sr, Jan (1857–1941), Dutch artist, 902
Vollon, Antoine (1833–1900), French artist, 332, 359
Voltaire (pseudonym of François Marie Arouet) (1694–1778), French writer, 574, 611, 657, 732, 764, 790
Vos, Christoffel Martinus (1841–1878), clergyman in Amsterdam, husband of Kee Vos-Stricker, 126, 137
Vos, Johannes (Jan) Paulus (1873–1928), son of Christoffel and Kee Vos, 193
Vosmaer, Carel (1826–1888), Dutch writer, 626
Vos-Stricker, Cornelia Adriana (Kee, Kee Vos, K.V.) (1846–1918), daughter of Johannes Paulus Stricker Sr, wife of Christoffel Martinus Vos, 126, 137, 186, 193, 194, 228, 244
Vriendt, Albert (Albrecht) Frans Lieven de (1843–1900), Belgian artist, 318
Vriendt, Juliaan (Julien) de (1842–1935), Belgian artist, 318
Vries, Theodorus de (1836–1890), carpenter in Nuenen, 432
W
Waeyen Pieterszen, Abraham van der (1817–1880), clergyman in Mechelen, 148
Wagner, Richard (1813–1883), German composer, 590, 635, 683, 686, 739, 743
Wahlberg, Alfred (Herman Alfred Leonard) (1834–1906), Swiss artist, 17
Wakker, Willem van de (1859–1927), telegraph operator and amateur artist in Nuenen, 469
Waldorp, Antonie (1803–1866), Dutch artist, 534
Walker, Frederick (1840–1875), English artist, 164, 199, 235, 307, 325, 358
Wallace, Richard (1818–1890), art collector in London, 361
Wallis, Thomas (?–?), art dealer in London, 509
Watteau, Jean Antoine (1684–1721), French artist, 853
Wauters, Emile (1846–1933), Belgian artist, 11, 361, 650, 709
Weber, Otto (1832–1888), German artist, 11, 17
Weehuizen, Johannes Wilhelmus (1852–1875), housemate of Theo in The Hague, 46
Weele, Herman Johannes van der (1852–1930), Dutch artist, 332, 348, 354, 361, 367
Weissenbruch, Johan Hendrik (Jan Hendrik) (1824–1903), Dutch artist, 11, 17, 123, 204, 222, 235, 312, 371, 592, 776, 801
Wenckebach, Ludwig Willem Reijmert (1860–1937), Dutch artist, 519, 529
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill (1834–1903), American artist, 267, 484, 768
Whitman, Walt (1819–1892), American poet, 670
Wied, Elizabeth Pauline Ottilie Louise of. See Sylva, Carmen
Wil. See Gogh, Willemina Jacoba van
Wilhelm I (1797–1888), German emperor and king of Prussia, 584
Willemien. See Gogh, Willemina Jacoba van
Willette, Adolphe (1857–1926), French artist, 584
William the Silent (William I, Prince of Orange) (1533–1584), Dutch statesman, 638
Wisselingh, Elbert Jan van (1848–1912), Dutch art dealer, 509
Witkamp, Ernest (1854–1897), Dutch artist, 534
Woodville (II), Richard Caton (1856–1927), English artist, 278, 359
Wyllie, William Lionel (1851–1931), English artist, 267
Z
Zahn, Albert von (1836–1873), German writer, 160
Zamacois y Zabala, Eduardo (1842/43–1871), Spanish artist, 17
Ziem, Félix (1821–1911), French artist, 11, 17, 578, 638, 657, 853
Zilcken, Charles Louis Philippe (1857–1930), Dutch artist, 361
Zola, Emile (1840–1902), French writer, 244, 250, 260, 267, 274, 288, 310, 342, 354, 358, 359, 367, 400, 428, 464, 502, 515, 537, 541, 550, 552, 561, 574, 590, 625, 638, 650, 651, 657, 660, 678, 691, 716, 782, 784, 804, 805
Zorn, Anders Leonard (1860–1920), Swedish artist, 768
Zuijlen (Father Bernhard), Cornelius Johannes van (1836–1901), clergyman in The Hague, 193
Zuyderland, Adrianus Jacobus (1810–1897), inhabitant of the Old Men’s and Women’s Home in The Hague, 267
Zwart, Michiel Antonie de (1853–1922), Van Gogh’s landlord in The Hague, 307, 310, 318, 408
Biographies of the Editors
In 1994 Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten started the Van Gogh Letters Project, a collaboration between the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Huygens ING, The Hague, to publish the artist’s correspondence. In 2002 Nienke Bakker joined the team. Together, they are the editors of Vincent van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard (2007), the web version of Van Gogh’s complete correspondence, www.vangoghletters.org (2009), and the six-volume Vincent van Gogh—The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (published in Dutch, French and English in 2009), and coauthors of The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters (2010).
Leo Jansen was curator of paintings at the Van Gogh Museum from 2005 until 2014. He is the author of Van Gogh and His Letters (2007) and coeditor of Brief Happiness (1999), the correspondence between Theo van Gogh and his fiancée and then wife, Jo Bonger. Since May 2014, Leo Jansen is editor of the Mondrian Edition Project (RKD and Huygens ING, The Hague).
Hans Luijten is a senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. He is the author of Van Gogh and Love (2007), and currently is working on a biography of Jo Bonger.
Nienke Bakker has worked at the Van Gogh Museum since 2000 as a researcher, since 2010 as the curator of exhibitions, and since June 2014 as the curator of paintings. Her publications and exhibitions include Van Gogh and Montmartre (2011) and Van Gogh at Work (2013).
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