Gerrit Braamcamp

Portrait of Gerrit Braamcamp with items from his collection, 1766 engraving by Jacob Xavery and Reinier Vinkeles
The Visit to the Nursery (1661) by Gabriel Metsu (Metropolitan Museum) - it was bought by Gerrit Braamcamp in 1749.[1]
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633), bought by Braamcamp around 1750. Stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston on March 18, 1990
The Dance by Antoine Watteau, owned by Braamcamp

Gerrit Braamcamp (18 November 1699, Amsterdam - 17 June 1771, Amsterdam) was a successful Roman Catholic distiller, timber merchant and art collector from the Netherlands. One of the most important merchants in Amsterdam, he built a timber yard and shipyard at one end of the Hoogte Kadijk, opposite the Dutch East India Company's own shipyard.

Over thirty years he created a major collection of Dutch and Flemish art, totally around 380 works,[2] though only a few of these are now in Dutch museums.[3][4] He owned no fewer than ten works by Metsu.[5] He was friends with the poet Jan Baptista Wellekens and the painters Jacob de Wit, Cornelis Troost, Jan ten Compe, Jacob Xavery and Georges-François Blondel (son of Jacques-François Blondel).

Life

Braamcamp 's family originated in Rijssen. In 1699 his father Jan (1671-1713) married the widow Hendriena van Beeck (-1721) in a 'schuilkerk' in Amsterdam - she lived on the N.Z. Achterburgwal, now called the Spuistraat,[6] where Gerrit also grew up. When his mother died, Gerrit took on responsibility for his two brothers' education. At the time of his marriage to an ironmonger's daughter in 1727 he lived on the Herengracht[7] The couple had two children who died in infancy.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Christiaan Kramm, De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van den vroegsten tot op onzen tijd · dbnl". dbnl.org.
  2. ↑ "Sotheby's - Page Not Found". sothebys.com.
  3. ↑ "Chapter - CODART - Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide". codart.nl.
  4. ↑ http://ahm.adlibsoft.com/ahmonline/detail.aspx
  5. ↑ Waiboer, pp. 13-14.
  6. ↑ "João (Jan) Braamcamp". geneall.net.
  7. ↑ According to I.H. van EeghenGerrit lived in 1732 on the Singel 292; a house with a garden on the Herengracht.

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