Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c.1570 in Gouda – 1643 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was probably related to the glass painter Dirk de Vrije.Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrije in the RKD He was a pupil of Wouter and Dirk Crabeth.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, 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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