Dirk de Vrije (1620, Gouda – 1681, Gouda), was a

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glass painter.

Biography

According to the RKD he was probably related to the glass painter

Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c.1570, Gouda, South Holland, Gouda – 1643, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter. Biography According to the RKD he was probably related to the glass painter Dirk de Vrije.Janskerk (Gouda) The Sint Janskerk in Gouda, the Netherlands, is a large Gothic church, known especially for its stained glass windows, for which it has been placed on the list of the top 100 Dutch monuments. History The church is dedicated to John the Baptis ...

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he was a pupil of Wouter Crabeth II, and another master in Utrecht. He travelled several times to France, until he became a member of the Gouda ''vroedschap'' or city council. He was mentioned as one of the 16th-century artists of the stained glass window ''cartoons'' in an exhibition of the Janskerk in Gouda in 1938, but his name was probably confused with Dirk Jansz Verheije (d. 1603) of Delft, a painter from Delft who made the window-gift from Delft for the Janskerk in the 16th century.Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Xander van Eck and Henny van Dolder-de Wit, Het geheim van Gouda: de cartons van de Goudse glazen, Zutphen (Walburg Pers) 2002, If he was active for the Janskerk, he may perhaps have been the assistant of Adriaan de Vrije, since he was mentioned along with him in Ignatius Walvis' ''Description of Gouda'' in 1714.''Beschryving der stad Gouda''
by Ignatius Walvis, in

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, 1714, p 103 He is listed as mayor (''burgermeester'') of Gouda and city mason (''fabrykmeester'') in 1674–1681. According to Houbraken (who was quoting Walvis), he was a respected painter of Gouda and contemporary of

Adriaen van der Spelt Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden – 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter. Biography According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories by Ignatius Walvis, he was an excellent flower painter born in ...

.Dirk de Vrije Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature He died while mayor of Gouda.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vrije, Dirk de 1620 births 1681 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Gouda, South Holland Painters from South Holland Dutch stained glass artists and manufacturers