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Tate Britain is to stage its first Vincent van Gogh exhibition since 1947 and the first to explore the artist through his relationship with Britain, The Guardian reports.

Details were announced on Friday of a show in which 40 works by the artist will come to London in spring 2019, including Starry Night Over the Rhône from Musée d’Orsay in Paris and one of his Sunflowers paintings, which is being lent by the National Gallery.

Van Gogh lodged in a room in Lambeth, south London, when he was in his early 20s and fell in love with the capital, walking everywhere.

In January 1874, he wrote to his brother Theo: “Things are going well for me here, I have a wonderful home and it’s a great pleasure for me to observe London and the English way of life, and the English themselves, and I also have nature and art and poetry, and if that isn’t enough, what is?”

The Tate Britain exhibition will tell the story of the young Van Gogh, a trainee art dealer, and the ways in which London prompted him to explore new avenues of life, art and love.

Van Gogh and Britain will be at Tate Britain in London from 27 March until 11 August 2019.