As an associate member van Gogh had the right to draw from the figure two evenings a week, but he appears to have made scant use of this facility.[Letters 16] Instead he relied on a stream of models he found in such places as soup kitchens and almshouses, spending on them a significant part of the allowance Theo sent him.[10] Amongst these models were his mistress Sien Hoornik, model for Sorrow, a