Jump to content

Alexander Westerhout

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cydebot (talk | contribs) at 21:23, 6 September 2015 (Robot - Speedily moving category People from Gouda to Category:People from Gouda, South Holland per CFDS.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Alexander Hendriksz Westerhout (1590, Gouda – 1661, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was the teacher of Daniël Tomberg and came from Utrecht.[1] He was born in Utrecht 1588 and learned to paint there from Jan van den Burg.[2] When the glass painter Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije died in 1643 he took over his position as curator of the stained glass windows of the Janskerk, Gouda.[2]

According to the RKD he was born in 1590 and was a glazier and curator of the stained glass windows of the Janskerk in Gouda.[3] [3]

References

  1. ^ Template:Link language Westerhoud van Uitrecht mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ a b Alexander Westerhout in Van der Aa
  3. ^ a b Alexander Hendriksz. Westerhout in the RKD

Template:Persondata