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Detail of stained-glass window #6 showing an allegory in celebration of the Peace of Münster in 1648, designed by Oostfries in 1655 for the Grote Kerk, De Rijp

Jozef Oostfries (1628–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.

Biography

Oostfries was born in Hoorn. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of the glasspainter Jan Maartz Engelsman and the older brother and teacher of Catharina Oostfries, who kept up her drawing and glass painting into her seventies.[1] His pupil was Jan Slob.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Jozef Oostfries Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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