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Self-portrait from 1887
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It wasn't until December 1888 that he sliced off the lower part of his left ear with a razor.
Apparently, in 2015 at the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, an exhibition was held showing
replicas of the pipes contained in Van Gogh’s art works. Sixteen pipes from his self-portrait, portrait and still life work featured in the exhibition.
Sherlock Holmes had a similar honour, only this time in the form of a thin book
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The blurb
"This monograph presents a complete analysis of all pipe smoking references relating to Sherlock Holmes, as given in the fifty-six short stories and four novels of the canon, as well as in its original illustrations. By original illustrations we mean illustrations for first English editions. References to Holmes' tobacco consumption using cigarettes, cigars, and snuff tobacco are not discussed. In addition, references to pipe smoking of persons other than Sherlock Holmes in the canon, except for Dr. Watson's 'Arcadia' tobacco mixture which Holmes smoked at least once, are not examined. Based on the strict definition given above, 62 text references in regard to pipes and 19 text references in regard to tobacco in 42 cases of the canon, as well as 22 original illustrations of 19 cases, have been identified. Our search has been done manually without any computer-aided search tools. However, all references have been double- checked with relevant internet search engines. Our analysis of these references is divided into four parts: pipes, tobaccos, place and daily time of smoking.
For all references to pipes in the original illustrations showing a sufficient clear picture of a specified pipe, a close existing pipe model is presented. For the reader's convenience, all pipe-related references in the canon's text and its original illustrations are listed in the appendix."
