Salomon Vredeman de Vries [SEP] place of death
Salomon Vredeman de Vries
Salomon Vredeman de Vries (Mechelen, 1556 - The Hague, 1604), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who specialised in architectural paintings.
Life.
He was the eldest son of the Dutch-born architect, painter and engineer Hans Vredeman de Vries. His father was at the time of Salomon's birth residing in Mechelen, from which he would flee to Antwerp in 1564 to escape the Inquisition. He trained with his father. It is believed he lived in The Hague at the
Wolfenbüttel, designing a fortification and a new lay-out of the city for Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After his death the project was cancelled and Hans worked in Hamburg, Danzig (1592), Prague (1596) and Amsterdam (1600). On his trips Vredeman was accompanied by Hendrick Aerts and his son Paul, both painters. His son Salomon was also a painter; Jacob Vredeman de Vries a kapellmeister and composer.
Vredeman de Vries tried to get an appointment at the University of Leiden in