Tilburg: The Hogere Burger School was established in 1866 in the former palace of Willem II. Here Vincent was taught by one of the best drawing teachers at the time: Constant Cornelis Huijsmans. He worked according to traditional academic rules, where drawing by observation was central. It is remarkable that in his later letters Vincent wrote not a word about this HBS education. Indeed, he wrote to his brother Theo that it would certainly have helped him if someone had taught him the rules of perspective earlier.
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