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JAN VAN OS (MIDDELHARNIS 1744-1808 THE HAGUE)
A river landscape with sailing vessels, a cottage along the banks, with cattle and travelers on horseback
signed 'J van Os fecit' (lower center, on a log)
oil on canvas
2018 x 2438 in. (51.2 x 62 cm.)
Provenance
Rothschild collection, Schloss Schillersdorf, Moravia (inv. no. 1515, their label on the reverse), and presumably by descent to,
Gwendoline Charlotte Frances Joan von Rothschild (1927-1972), and her husband Roland Henry Hoguet (1920-1985), New York; [The Property of Mr. Roland Hoguet], Christie's, New York, 12 January 1978, lot 136.
with Richard Green, London, where acquired in July 1978 by the present owner.
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Though Jan van Os is best known for his asymmetrically composed still lifes of fruit and flowers, he was also a skilled landscapist, who favored marine scenes reminiscent of those by the celebrated painters Jan van de Cappelle and Willem van de Velde II. Van Os began his artistic training under Aert Schouman and joined the Confraternity of Painters in The Hague in 1773. Together with his wife, the portraitist Susanna de la Croix, trained their three children, Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Pieter van Os, and Maria Margaretha van Os, in the art of painting.

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