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Jan van Os (1897)
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Jan van Os was a Dutch Old Masters painter who was born in 1744. Numerous key galleries and museums such as York Art Gallery have featured Jan van Os's work in the past.Jan van Os's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 344 USD to 1,052,139 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,052,139 USD for Still life with a bouquet of flowers in a sculpted vase, including a parrot tulip, morning glory, a black iris, peonies, daffodils and a crown imperial, together with a bird's nest on a pink marble ledge, sold at Sotheby's London in 2006. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 28,189 USD.Jan van Os has been featured in articles for ArtDaily and BBC News. The most recent article is David Roche Foundation House Museum Opens a New Exhibition of Western Floral Art written for ArtDaily in January 2020. The artist died in 1808.
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Jan van Os
Dutch painter
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
[edit]Van Os was born in Middelharnis. He was taught by Aert Schouman in The Hague, where he would spend the rest of his life. In 1773, he recorded in the painters' confraternity. In 1775, he married Susanna de La Croix, an able pastellist and the daughter of the deaf-mute portraitist Pieter Frederik de la Croix.
Van Os is mostly known for his fruit and flower still life paintings, though he started his career painting seascapes. His floral still lifes were painted in the style of Jan van Huysum, with the flowers usually presented on a marble ledge against a green background.
He was the father of artists Pieter van Os, Maria Margaretha van Os, and Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os and grandfather to the painter Pieter Frederik van Os.
Jan van Os was the teacher of his children as well as Petronella van Woensel,