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. ==References==