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

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the son of

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 ...

. He studied with his father and from 1794 to 1795 at the Tekenakademie in The Hague. During this period he copied paintings from the works by

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and Charles Dujardin. Van Os was particularly fond of animals as his subject matter and made such an excellent copy of one of Potter's works - Young Bull - that it was purchased by

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. After completing his training, he departed for

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, where he supported himself primarily by painting rather mediocre portrait miniatures and giving drawing lessons. Around 1805 he began to devote himself to producing landscape paintings filled with his favourite subject of cattle and was still strongly influenced by the 17th-century Dutch masters. In 1808, his ''Hilly Landscape with Cattle'' (untraced) won the prize provided by King

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for the best landscape at the first public exhibition of Dutch contemporary art in Amsterdam. In 1813 and 1814 he trained as a captain of volunteers and experienced military engagements. This led him to try military subjects in his art. Emperor

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purchased a picture in this theme by Van Os and placed it in his palace at

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. Van Os became a fourth class member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1820. Van Os died in the Hague in 1839. His son

Pieter Frederik van Os Pieter Fredrik van Os (8 October 1808 – 31 March 1892) was a painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was the son and pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os and worked mainly in the spirit of his father.Pieter Fredrik van Os in the RKD Biography Va ...

(1808–1892) became a painter and teacher who taught

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among others. File:Wittevrouwenpoort te Utrecht in 1813 door Pieter Gerardus van Os.jpg, ''The at the time of the arrival of the

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in Utrecht, 1813'' (1816) File:Pieter Gerardus van Os 001.jpg, ''Vergezicht over de weiden bij 's-Graveland'' (1817) File:Cows and sheep at the river bank, by Pieter Gerardus van Os (Den Haag 1776 - 1839).jpg, ''Cows and sheep at the river bank'' (1832)

References

*''The Penny Cyclopaedeia by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'' by George Long, Published 1843 by C. Knight.

External links

Art EncyclopediaWorks by Pieter Van Os at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
1776 births 1839 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Artists from The Hague Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 19th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub