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Gerrit Braamcamp
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Gerrit Braamcamp (18 November 1699 – 17 June 1771) 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 Hoogte Kadijk, opposite the Dutch East India Company's own shipyard.
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Gerrit Braamcamp | |
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![]() Portrait of Braamcamp with items from his collection, 1766 engraving by Jacob Xavery and Reinier Vinkeles | |
Born | 18 November 1699 |
Died | 17 June 1771(1771-06-17) (aged 71) |
Children | 2 |
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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).