Gerrit Braamcamp

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 Hoogte Kadijk, opposite the Dutch East India Company's own shipyard.

[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).

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.

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.

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
Logement 't Wapen van Amsterdam Kloveniersburgwal 64 by Caspar Philips