Blue Peter | Van Gogh's Centenary

100 years after his death, Diane-Louise Jordan tells the story of Vincent van Gogh, from his early work as a preacher to his final years in Arles, poor and battling depression.

Unsatisfied with his first portrait of Joseph Roulin the postman (which features in this programme), Van Gogh created a second, focusing more on the subject's head and shoulders. He painted portraits of the whole Roulin family - Joseph's wife Augustine, their two sons and their daughter Marcelle, who was just four months old at the time.