Talk:Vincent van Gogh

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Hi, everybody! Did anybody else notice that the picture of the Doctor on the wall looked at lot like Jon Pertwee?

Note the top image; from the show: It seems to me that the crew might have lighted the shot so as to make the hat in the painting seem less like a hat and more like Pertwee's white hair. They also removed the black lines defining the hat in the original painting. (The paintings were no doubt not the million dollar originals).

Compare to what the real painting looks like (third thumb nail down), where the hat looks like a hat and not a white blob of paint.


The version in Doctor Who.jpg

I'm not familiar with Van Gogh's work at all, so when I looked up the painting on-line, I was surprised to discover that he was actually wearing a hat. When I first saw the painting in the episode, I instantly thought, "Hey! It's Jon Pertwee!" -Meddling Fool


  • Personally, I don't see it at all. He looks completely different. --The Thirteenth Doctor 08:55, June 7, 2010 (UTC)