Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije

Dutch Golden Age painter
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IntroDutch Golden Age painter
A.K.A.Adrian de Vrie Adrian de Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz De Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrie Adriaan Gerritsz De Vrye Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrije
A.K.A.Adrian de Vrie Adrian de Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz De Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrie Adriaan Gerritsz De Vrye Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrije
PlacesNetherlands
isPainter
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Death25 March 1643Gouda
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Biography

Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c.1570, Gouda – 1643, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.

Biography

Left: drawing by Wtewael and Right: glass by De Vrije

According to the RKD he was probably related to the glass painter Dirk de Vrije. He was a pupil of Wouter and Dirk Crabeth.

In 1595 he took out a loan to buy "glass manufacturing materials" and became the first curator of the stained glass windows of the Janskerk, Gouda. In service of the States of Holland, he made the window "Glass 1" after a design by Joachim Wtewael and the window "Glass 29" after his own design. In Glass 1 he also designed all of the city heraldic shields that border the main subject.

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