The famous portrait made by Vincent Van Gogh which is supposed to be a self portrait of him is not his portrait in the first place. It is apparently a portrait of his brother's, it has been revealed.
People actually thought that there was no portrait of Theo, Van Gogh's brother, a person who he was very close to. But the self portrait of Van Gogh was found out to be Theo's portrait. This painting is displayed in Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum and is thought to be the only known portrait of Theo.
The museum's head researcher Louis van Tilborgh made the discovery after he compared it to another Van Gogh self-portrait. There are a few dissimilar features that could be found in the two paintings; Theo and Van Gogh have differently shaped ears and different colored beards.