Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1782-1861), Bloemstilleven in een Griekse vaas, 1821, Olieverf op doek

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (20 November 1782

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– 11 July 1861

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), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the painters

Jan van Os Jan van Os (23 February 1744 – 7 February 1808) was a Dutch painter and a member of the renowned Van Os family of artists. Biography Van Os was born in Middelharnis. He was taught by Aert Schouman in The Hague, where he would spend the rest o ...

and

Susanna de la Croix Susanna de La Croix (1755–1789) was a Dutch painter. De la Croix was baptized on 3 January 1756 in the Oude Waalse Kerk in Amsterdam as Susanne, daughter of French painter Pierre Frédéric de la Croix and Marie Regnier. The family lived altern ...

, and a brother of the painters

Pieter van Os Pieter Gerardus van Os (8 October 1776 – 28 March 1839) was a Dutch painter and engraver and a member of the renowned Van Os family of artists. Van Os was born in The Hague the son of Jan van Os. He studied with his father and from 1794 to 17 ...

and

Maria Margaretha van Os Maria Margaretha van Os (November 15, 1779 – November 17, 1862), was a 19th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography She was born in The Hague as the daughter of the painters Jan van Os and Susanna de la Croix. She ...

.Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os in the

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In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society

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in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became

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in 1812. From 1816 to 1820 he worked in Amsterdam. In 1822 he moved to Paris, where he worked for the

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porcelain factory. He painted landscapes, but was, like his father, best known as a painter of flowers. Starting in the 1830s he spent his summers in

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, where he continued working on flower illustrations for the "''Flora Batava''" edited by

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. He is not to be confused with the son of his brother Pieter, also a painter called Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, but who lived from 1805-1841 and continued the family painting tradition.

References

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