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Frederik van Frijtom (c.1632-1702) Painter who specialized in what is now know as the best type of Delft blue landscape work on "porceleyne schilderijtjes" or faience plaques, made in his own design. He also made a number of paintings in oil on canvas in his typical, very recognizable style of painting.

Below is a particularly large plaque with a landscape, from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Location of his house in Delft, dates and the question why and how he escaped membership of the guild still to be researched. He was Guild servant at the end of his career. According to a Rijksmuseum text he worked for De Dubbelde Schenkkan ; one other source claims that he worked independently for different faience producers (see Delft Blue).

If he did work independently this would directly contravene the strict Guild rule that all work must be done at the workshop and no 'moonshining' work must be done at home. How could he have functioned on a commercial basis without being properly enrolled?

Frytom married in Delft in 1652.

Frederik van Frytom, Delft Blue Plaque The scene shows a ship on a canal by a village, 32x24. Formerly collection Six van 's-Graveland. Lit: Vecht, Frytom, p. 69.

Notes: Literature A. Vecht, Frederik van Frytom, Amsterdam 1968.

This page forms part of a large encyclopedic site on Delft. Research by Drs. Kees Kaldenbach (email). A full presentation is on view at johannesvermeer.info.

Launched 16 February 2005; Last update March 1, 2017. More info in the RKD site.