Jozef Oostfries

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

^ ^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

Jozef Oostfries in Catharina Oostfries biography on inghist
stained glass window in church Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine of De Rijp

[Houbraken-1] (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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