John Peter Russell - Portrait of van Gogh

Among my ancestors I have discovered John Peter Russell. Russelll is considered the only Australian member of the group of impressionist and and post impressionist artists who lived in France in the 1880's and 1890's. Russelll owned a Van Gogh oil painting Three Pairs of Shoes which is now in the Fogg art Museum at Harvard University. It is believed he got it from Van Gogh in exchange for Russell painting Van Gogh's portrait.

This portrait was painted in 1886. It is in Amsterdam, Muzeum van Gogha