Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije
Illustration — Glass 1 in the Janskerk, Gouda, designed by Joachim Wtewael and made by Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije, 1596 Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c.1570 in Gouda – 1643 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.
Also recorded as Adrian de Vrie · Adrian de Vrije · Adriaan Gerritsz De Vrije · Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrie
Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije
Joachim Wtewael · Foto (own work): Joachim Köhler · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1570
- Died
- 1643 · Gouda.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- stained-glass artist · painter · draftsperson
- Languages
- Dutch
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3922478 · wikipedia · Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije
In this article
Biography
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.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije, revision 1319439211 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Adriaan Gerritsz. de Vrije in the RKD
- 2.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,
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 September 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Adrià GualArtist
- Adrià PinaArtist
- Adriaan BloemaertArtist
- Adriaan de LelieArtist
- Adriaan Gilles CamperArtist
- Adriaan Jozef HeymansArtist
- Adriaan van 't HoffArtist
- Adriaen BackerArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.