Although he spent his career in The Hague , Jan van Os was born in Middleharnis in the south western province of Zeeland , which as it's name suggests , straddles the Scheldt delta and was largely reclaimed from the sea . Scenes like the one portrayed here would have been familiar from van Os's childhood . Van Os , with Jan van Huysum , was the leading eighteenth century painter of flowerpieces , much in demand in the aristocratic city of The Hague , seat of the court . He also produced a number of superb shipping scenes which were popular in England , where he exhibited with the Society of Artists from 1773 ....The boats seen here are mostly fishing and transport craft seen a a flat calm , their curved hulls and white sails reflecting in the mirror like water . The radiant morning sky is piled high with cumulus clouds . The moisture in the atmosphere casts a pearly veil over the ships in the right middle distance , perhaps presaging a change in the weather . The foreground left boats fly the Dutch colours , the vanes barely lifting in the almost non-existent breeze . They have leeboards for manoeuvring in shallow waters . At far right is a three-masted merchantman . Van Os is working in the tradition of calm seascapes practiced so brilliantly in the previous century by Jan van de Cappelle (1626-1707) and Willem van de Veld the Younger (1633-1707)...As would be expected of a work made in the last half third of the eighteenth century , the painting is a higher key than those of van Os's seventeenth century precursors . The presence of women and children , their blue , red and white costumes providing colour highlights amid the browns and ochres of the shipping , underlines the peaceful , domestic nature of the scene . Although the Dutch Republic faced wars in the eighteenth century - it was invaded by France in 1795 - the struggles ( and the political dominance ) of the previous century were passed and the taste in paintings was more soothing and classical .
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Friday, 25 May 2012
'Calm Seas with a Fishing Boat and a Three Master ' Jan van Os . Dutch (1744-1808) Oil on panel , circa 1770's . Private collection, New York .
Although he spent his career in The Hague , Jan van Os was born in Middleharnis in the south western province of Zeeland , which as it's name suggests , straddles the Scheldt delta and was largely reclaimed from the sea . Scenes like the one portrayed here would have been familiar from van Os's childhood . Van Os , with Jan van Huysum , was the leading eighteenth century painter of flowerpieces , much in demand in the aristocratic city of The Hague , seat of the court . He also produced a number of superb shipping scenes which were popular in England , where he exhibited with the Society of Artists from 1773 ....The boats seen here are mostly fishing and transport craft seen a a flat calm , their curved hulls and white sails reflecting in the mirror like water . The radiant morning sky is piled high with cumulus clouds . The moisture in the atmosphere casts a pearly veil over the ships in the right middle distance , perhaps presaging a change in the weather . The foreground left boats fly the Dutch colours , the vanes barely lifting in the almost non-existent breeze . They have leeboards for manoeuvring in shallow waters . At far right is a three-masted merchantman . Van Os is working in the tradition of calm seascapes practiced so brilliantly in the previous century by Jan van de Cappelle (1626-1707) and Willem van de Veld the Younger (1633-1707)...As would be expected of a work made in the last half third of the eighteenth century , the painting is a higher key than those of van Os's seventeenth century precursors . The presence of women and children , their blue , red and white costumes providing colour highlights amid the browns and ochres of the shipping , underlines the peaceful , domestic nature of the scene . Although the Dutch Republic faced wars in the eighteenth century - it was invaded by France in 1795 - the struggles ( and the political dominance ) of the previous century were passed and the taste in paintings was more soothing and classical .
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