Gerrit Braamcamp
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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Portrait of Braamcamp with items from his collection, 1766 engraving by Jacob Xavery and Reinier Vinkeles | |
| Born | 18 November 1699 |
| Died | 17 June 1771 (aged 71) |
| Children | 2 |
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 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).
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