Background
He was the son and pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os and worked mainly in the spirit of his father. Van Os was born in Amsterdam, into a well-known family of artists: his grandfather, "ancestor" of the artist"s family was January van Os.
He was the son and pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os and worked mainly in the spirit of his father. Van Os was born in Amsterdam, into a well-known family of artists: his grandfather, "ancestor" of the artist"s family was January van Os.
Van Os studied at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam, before traveling through Belgium and Germany. He settled in Haarlem in 1839. Like his father he specialized in painting animals, especially horses in all of their forms, as a work horse, draft horse or racehorse.
He died, aged 83, in Haarlem.
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In 1846 he became a board member of the Haarlem painting club "Kunst zij ons Doel".