Jacob Xavery and Reinier Vinkeles - Portrait of Gerrit Braamcamp with items from his collection RP-P-OB-62

Gerrit Braamcamp (18 November 1699, in

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– 17 June 1771, in 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 Hoogte Kadijk, opposite the

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's own shipyard. Over thirty years he created a major collection of Dutch and Flemish art, totally around 380 works, though only a few of these are now in Dutch museums. He owned no fewer than ten works by Metsu. He was friends with the poe
Jan Baptista Wellekens
and the painters

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, Jan ten Compe,

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and Georges-François Blondel (son of

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Life

Braamcamp 's family originated in

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. In 1699 his father Jan (1671-1713) married the widow Hendriena van Beeck (-1721) in a '

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' in

- she lived on the N.Z. Achterburgwal, now called the Spuistraat, 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

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The couple had two children who died in infancy.

Works

* ''Musaeum Braamcampianum, ofte Korte beschryvinge van het uitmuntend cabinet schilderyen, teekeningen, prenten, beelden, enz., nagelaten by wyl. den heere Gerret Braamcamp : hetwelk verkogt is in Amsterdam op den 31 July 1771. en volgende dagen in ’t logement Het Wapen van Amsterdam : benevens de pryzen en naamen der respect. koopers, ..'' * ''Catalogus van het overheerlyke wydvermaarde en alombekende kabinet van ... Japansche porcelynen, ... neevens de gantsche collecte van ... Japansch verlakt werk, ... mitsgaders een groote party ... zilverwerk .... Alles ... by een versameld ... by wylen den heere Gerret Braamcamp. : Alle het welke verkogt zal werden op dingsdag den 6 augustus 1771. en volgende dagen ... ''

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Braancamp 1699 births 1771 deaths Art collectors from Amsterdam Dutch Roman Catholics 18th-century Dutch merchants Businesspeople from Amsterdam