The real-life Van Gogh painting

Stripped boards, rustic wooden furniture, walls hung with the artists' own paintings: you can barely spot the difference between these two bedrooms. One is the room where Van Gogh slept at the Yellow House in Arles, immortalised in his 1888 painting, The Bedroom. The other is in a terraced house in Haslingden, Lancashire – a painstaking recreation of Van Gogh's room, complete with unsettlingly outsize bed and chair, and made during the 1960s by the late English artist and eccentric Dave Pearson. This room, and the 20,000 other installations, paintings and prints that were found in Pearson's house after his death from cancer in 2008, will soon be on public display: a trust, set up in Pearson's name, has bought the house and the collection, and plans to open it as a gallery. Van Gogh's old bedroom, sadly, has not been similarly preserved: the Yellow House was badly damaged in an Allied bombing raid in 1944, and was later demolished.