following a visit of Theo who supplied money for colour, Van Gogh starts painting in oil at the sea coast in Scheveningen. November: has trial proofs of 6 lithographs printed. 1883 September: leaves Sien, and moves to Drenthe. September 11: arrives in Hoogeveen, late in the evening, and lodges with Albertus Hartsuiker, Groote Kerkstraat October 2: leaves Hoogeveen on the tow boat for Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord: Van Gogh wrote his brother that he is staying in the first place, while his lodgings with Hendrik Scholte were indeed part of the latter village close-by. November 1: visits Zweeloo December 4: walks down from Veenoord to Hoogeveen to catch the train for Nuenen. December 5: Vincent arrives in Nuenen to stay with his parents. December 7: date of the postmark on the back of a pen drawing (F.1237) that signalized Theo his arrival in Nuenen. 1884 ? : the Goupil family retires, the firm is again transformed and renamed as Boussod, Valadon & Cie, successeurs de Goupil & Cie. January 17: descending from a train, Van Gogh's mother breaks her leg; Vincent cares for her during her recuperation. end March: Theo starts buying and selling Impressionists, beginning with a painting by Pissarro. August ???: Margot Begemann attempts suicide. 1885 March 26: Vincent's father dies. March 27: Theo travels to Nuenen for the funeral. March 30: father's funeral. May: Vincent leaves his mother's house. July: on their way back to the Netherlands to spend their holidays with their parents, Theo and Andries Bonger visit the museums in Lille, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. c. July 28 - August 7: Theo stays in Nuenen. August 7: Theo visits Bonger in Amsterdam and meets his sister Johanna ("Jo") for the first time. August: first public display of works by Van Gogh, in windows of the art dealer Leurs in The Hague. October 6–8: visit to Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum. November 24: leaves for Antwerp. 1886 January 18: enrolls in Antwerp Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten) for the winter term 1885-1886 in the Antique class. February early March: arrives in Paris and asks Theo to see him in the Louvre. Moves in with Theo in his apartment in Rue de Laval. March - June (?): studies for three months at studio of Fernand Cormon. April 3: relegated by the council of the Antwerp Academy to the entrance course; by this time Van Gogh is already in