DS was looking in his doctor who annual and it came up with a page about different real life historical figures that the doctor has "met". He got really excited when I said they were real and then told him that Van Gogh did some paintings which still exist and maybe we could go and see them, he decided he wanted to.
I don't really know much about art despite studying it at college 
is there an easy way to find out where an artist's work is displayed? I bet it's not even in this country!
Am kicking myself also because we live in Shakespeare county and despite the fact that Shakespeare was on the same page I happened to pick Van Gogh as an example of someone who has things you can still go and look at