Nuenen: At the end of 1883, after a stay of 3 months in Drenthe, Vincent took the train to Nuenen where his father had been a minister since 1882. There were of course financial reasons, and Vincent had been lonely in Drenthe, but his decision to go to Nuenen was prompted mainly by his desire to become a painter of peasants. He was given the unimpressive washhouse to use as a studio. The parsonage gardens were a regular subject for his drawings and paintings.Things went well with his work, but his move back reawakened old tensions between him and his father.
