Gerrit Braamcamp, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Gerrit Braamcamp

Dutch distiller and art collector

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1699

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1771

Profession: art collector

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gerrit Braamcamp (18 November 1699, in Amsterdam – 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 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, 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).



Alternative names	Reinr Vinkeles, Rein J. Vinkeles
Description	Dutch printmaker, draughtsman, etcher and engraver
Date of birth/death	12 January 1741	30 January 1816
Location of birth/death	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
Work period	circa 1762-1816
Work location	Amsterdam (ca. 1762-1816), Paris (1770-1771)
Authority control	: Q512648 VIAF: 19949925 ISNI: 0000 0000 6656 9807 ULAN: 500020996 LCCN: nr91024495 GND: 123017416 WorldCat