Georgius Jacobus Johannes VAN OS
 (The Hague, 1782 – Paris, 1861)

 Fruits, flowers and gray partridge
 Oil on canvas
 Signed lower center
 50 x 40 cm

 Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (The Hague, 1782 – Paris, 1861) was a pupil of his father Jan van OS (1744-1808), who was a painter of still lifes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Georgius's elder brothers were a brother Pieter Gerardus van OS (1776-1839) and a sister Maria Margaretha van OS (1779-1862), both also artists, Pieter known for his landscapes and animal paintings and Maria for her still lifes.

 Georgius was awarded an honourable mention in 1809 in the annual competition of the Amsterdam Artists' Society Felix MERITIS for a still life – a watercolour, a field in which he also excelled, in addition to oil painting, lithography and pastel.

 Georgius truly began his career in the studio that his father had run in The Hague between 1773 and his death in 1808. It was after this event that he left for Amsterdam and began to travel from 1812 between the Netherlands and Paris, where he would eventually settle permanently in 1826. He also exhibited twice at the Paris Salon, in 1812 (according to the catalogue, several watercolours of fruit and several paintings of flowers) and 1814 (several paintings of flowers and fruit). Once in the French capital, Georgius worked for the Manufacture de Sèvres, while continuing to produce works (oils, gouaches, pastels and lithographs) for his French and Dutch clients. This did not prevent him from exhibiting his works in the Netherlands, where for example the Queen of Holland bought three paintings from him in 1843.

 In his time, Georgius van Os was considered a true master of still life painting with a prolific and high-quality output renowned for his attention to detail and highly accomplished finishes. His favourite subjects were almost exclusively – with the exception of a few landscapes intended for the Manufacture de Sèvres – floral compositions, fruit and game birds, often in association, like our painting. We can indeed see – among other things – a bunch of grapes, an apple, chestnuts, strawberries, a branch of forget-me-nots, carnations, a dahlia and a poppy, all decorated with a grey partridge as a trophy.

 Museums : Haarlem, Amsterdam, London, The Hague, Rotterdam…