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Vincent van Gogh did not like being photographed. He thought the medium “lacked life” and preferred to preserve his likeness through painted self-portraits.

Experts knew of only two photographic portraits of the artist—and as it turns out, van Gogh may have been even more camera-shy than was previously thought. According to the Guardian’s Mark Brown, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced that one of the photographs long believed to be of van Gogh is most likely an image of his younger brother Theo.

The photo captures a teenager with light eyes and swirling light hair, his mouth set in a somber line.

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In 1957, the Belgian researcher Mark Edo Tralbaut publicly presented the photograph at an exhibition and identified the boy as a 13-year-old van Gogh. The attribution was, for many years, accepted without question. According to the museum, the photo “made its way around the world and features in countless b