I'm pretty sure it was the other way around.
<span>Vincent van Gogh was the artist who communicated his vision of the night sky by painting the masterpiece Starry Night. Van Gogh was a 19th century Post-Impressionist artist from the Netherlands. Starry Night was one of over 2000 artworks he created.</span>
He was most known for his paintings he was a french artist
The difference is when you draw by memory you won't remember every tiny detail, and you make/draw it in your own way vs. having the object in front of you you can copy it almost exactly.
