Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os I - Artist Info

About Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os I

Name variants

Georg Jakob Johannes Os, Georgius Johannes Jacobus van Os, Georgius Jacobus (Jan) Van Os I
  • Biography

    Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (20 November 1782 The Hague – 11 July 1861 Paris), was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

    According to the RKD, he was a son and pupil of the painters Jan van Os and Susanna de la Croix, and a brother of the painters Pieter van Os and Maria Margaretha van Os. In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812.

    From 1816 to 1820 he worked in Amsterdam. In 1822 he moved to Paris, where he worked for the Sèvres porcelain factory. He painted landscapes, but was, like his father, best known as a painter of flower...

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