National Gallery of Victoria faces double 'Vincent van Gogh' claims THE National Gallery of Victoria will this week receive a claim for its infamous Head of a Man portrait, the painting which for 67 years until 2007 was thought to be one of only two van Goghs in an Australian public collection. The gallery will receive a letter within days from the estate of the painting's original owner, Richard Semmel, who sold it under duress during the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.