Willem van Wijk

"In Letter 192 Vincent wrote to Theo about his first meeting with Sien:

Last winter I met a pregnant woman, deserted by the man whose child she was carrying. A pregnant woman who walked the streets in the winter--she had her bread to earn, you'll know how. I took that woman on as a model and have worked with her all winter. I couldn't pay her a model's full daily wages, but I paid her rent all the same, and thus far, thank God, I have been able to save her and her child from hunger and cold by sharing my own bread with her"

Zoon van een onbekende vader, gewettigd bij huwelijk door Franciscus van Wijk:. Bij de voltrekking van het huwelijk tussen de moeder en Arnoldus Franciscus van Wijk op 4-9-1901 te Rotterdam is het kind erkend. Bron: archief Leiden