This book examines the story of how Van Gogh's work gradually came to be appreciated and collected in Britain - a country in which he lived, albeit unhappily, from 1873 to 1875, whose language he spoke and wrote fluently, and whose literature he greatly admired. In focusing on this early taste for the artist, the book uncovers important new, and unpublished, research on the early collectors and on the British interest in Van Gogh.