Starved Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh was an artist Ahead of his time creating paintings with interesting brushstroke that no one of his era was familiar with. Van Goph had a unique view of the world and thus had a unique art style. This made van Goph painting undesirable to those living in his active era.
Because of this, van Goph became a literal "starved artist" with only selling one art piece in his life to His brother's wife.
This, on top of a long string of mental illnesses, had never stopped Van Gogh from painting.
Vincent van Goph died of a presumed suicide at thirty-seven years old.
It was only after his death that has works became widely known.

After his death his sister-in-law received all of Van Goph's painting. Having no other use for hundreds