Jan van Os (23 February 1744 – 7 February 1808) was a Dutch painter and a fanatic of the Famous Van Os relations of artists.
Van Os was born in Middelharnis. He was taught by Aert Schouman in The Hague, where he would spend the flaming of his life. In 1773, he recorded in the painters’ confraternity. In 1775, he married Susanna de La Croix, an skilled 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 nevertheless lifes were painted in the style of Jan van Huysum, with the flowers usually presented upon a marble ledge neighboring 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 scholarly of his children as skillfully as Petronella van Woensel, a buddy of his daughter Maria.
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