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A young groom with his horses and dog Signed lower right Oil on panel, 19.3 x 27.1 cm Provenance: - Gescher & Kemper, Amsterdam (incl. invoice) - Private collection, the Netherlands, thence by descent to the present owner Note: Pieter Fredrerik van Os, a painter from the Northern Netherlands, was born into a well-known family of artists. He was the son and pupil of the famous cattle painter Pieter Gerardus van Os. Working in the spirit of his father, he specialized in painting animals; especially horses in all of their forms, as a workhorse, draft horse or racehorse. His grandparents were the painters Jan van Os and Susanna de la Croix. Besides his father, his aunt and uncle also became painters: Georgius and Maria Margaretha van Os. Pieter Frederik van Os studied at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam, before traveling through Belgium and Germany. He settled in Haarlem in 1839 and 1846 he became a board member of the Haarlem Painting Association "Kunst zij ons Doel" (translated as: might art be our purpose). His work can be found, among others, in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Kunstmuseum The Hague.