Maria Vos

{{Infobox artist | name =  | image = Maria Vos (1824-1906).jpg | image_size = 185px | alt = | caption = Photograph from 1882 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1824|12|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|01|11|1824|12|21|df=yes}} | death_place = Oosterbeek, Netherlands | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = Adriana Johanna Haanen<ref name="Heemkunde">{{cite web|last1=Renkum|first1=Heemkunde|title=Adriana Johanna Haanen (1814-1895), Oosterbeek|url=http://www.heemkunderenkum.nl/mensen/adriana-johanna-haanen-1814-1895-oosterbeek/|website=Stichting voor Heemkunde in de gemeente Renkum|date=24 July 2014 |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> | awards =  | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }} '''Maria Vos''' ({{IPA|nl|maːˈrijaː ˈvɔs}}; 21 December 1824 – 11 January 1906) was a Dutch still-life painter.

==Biography== She was born to the family of a stockbroker. She originally studied what would now be called "home economics" at a French boarding school in Weesp.<ref name="H">[http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Vos Brief biography] @ Huygens/Resources.</ref> But, as was common for upper-class young ladies at the time, she also received drawing lessons, from Christiaan Andriessen. Later, she studied painting with Petrus Kiers.<ref name="A">[http://www.artindex.nl/gelderland/default.asp?id=6&num=0375900087006010253030157003800990501171 Biographical notes] @ Documentatie van Beeldende Kunst in Gelderland.</ref> In 1844, she had a showing at the Exhibition of Living Masters and, in 1847, became an honorary member of the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" in Amsterdam.<ref name="A" />

She worked there until 1853, when she moved to Oosterbeek and joined a group of painters known as the Hollandse Barbizon. In 1863, her friend, Adriana Johanna Haanen, the sister-in-law of her teacher, Kiers, joined her there. Seven years later, they built a home known as the "Villa Grada", where they gave drawing and painting lessons.<ref name="H" /> Haanen died in 1895, but Vos remained and became one of the last artists in residence there. On her eightieth birthday, she received a personal tribute from seventy members of Arti et Amicitiae.<ref name="H" />

Although Vos is primarily known for still lifes, she also did portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, including a series of watercolors depicting Oosterbeek. She mostly exhibited in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also had a showing at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.<ref name="A" /> Much of her work has been lost (or misplaced), but due to the sheer quantity of her output, much remains.<ref name="H" /> Major retrospectives of her work were held in 1973 and 2002.

==Selected paintings== <gallery mode=packed heights="220"> Maria Vos - Stilleven met kan van steengoed.jpg|Still Life with Stoneware Mug Stilleven_door_Maria_Vos_(1824-1906).jpg|Vegetable Stall Vos-Goldfish.jpg|Still Life with Goldfish Bowl Vos-Hunting.jpg|Hunting Still Life </gallery>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Further reading== *Martina Maria Doornik-Hoogenraad, ''Maria Vos: een Gelderse schilderes 1824-1906'' (exhibition catalog), Stedelijk Museum Zutphen, 1973

== External links == {{Commons category|Maria Vos}} *[http://www.artnet.com/artists/maria-vos/past-auction-results Maria Vos] on Artnet {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vos, Maria}} Category:1824 births Category:1906 deaths Category:Painters from Amsterdam Category:19th-century Dutch painters Category:Dutch still life painters Category:19th-century Dutch women painters