Jozef Oostfries (1628–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.
Biography edit
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 edit
- ^ 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 of De Rijp
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