Abraham Bredius

{{Short description|Dutch art collector (1855–1946)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{refimprove |date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = Haverman Bredius.jpg | caption = Bredius, by Hendrik Haverman, 1899 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|04|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|03|13|1855|04|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Monaco | occupation = Art collector, art historian, museum curator }} '''Abraham Bredius''' (18 April 1855 – 13 March 1946) was a Dutch art collector, art historian, and museum curator.<ref name="acad">{{cite web | title=Abraham Bredius | website=Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique | url=https://academieroyale.be/fr/who-who-detail/relations/abraham-bredius/ | language=fr | access-date=2025-06-16}}</ref>

==Life== [[File:Rembrandt - Raising of the Cross - 95.1946.jpg|thumb|In 1921, Bredius bought Raising of the Cross by Dutch painter Rembrandt. The painting is still located in the Museum Bredius today.]] Bredius travelled widely, visiting various art collections in his youth, and worked at the Dutch Museum for History and Art before becoming director, from 1889 to 1909, of the Mauritshuis. He became a Rembrandt expert who had many differences of opinion with Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. He was a regular contributor to the art history journal ''Oud Holland'' and compiled the ''Künstler-Inventare'' series.

In 1922, he left the Netherlands for health reasons and settled in Monaco, publishing books in 1927 on Jan Steen and, in 1935, a catalog of Rembrandt paintings, often referred to in the literature as "Bredius 1935". He bequeathed his papers to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, and his art collection lives on in the Museum Bredius. He also bequeathed several Rembrandt paintings to the National Dutch collection, including Rembrandt's ''Homer Dictating his Verses''.

== Donation A. Bredius == In 1894 Bredius donated over 150 objects of his collection to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

<br><gallery mode=packed heights=160> Maria met kind en de heilige Anna Rijksmuseum SK-A-1500.jpeg|Madonna and Child, Dirk van Hoogstraten, 1630 Gezicht op de stad Haarlem over het Spaarne bij de Eendjespoort, SK-A-1594.jpg|View of Haarlem, Balthasar van der Veen, 1650 Ruitergevecht tussen Turkse troepen en troepen van de Oostenrijkse keizer, SK-A-1445.jpg|Equestrian Battle, Jacques Muller, 1670

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==References== {{reflist}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101127121651/http://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/brediusa.htm Abraham Bredius] in the Dictionary of Art Historians

==External links== * [https://books.google.com/books?q=Abraham+Bredius Books by Abraham Bredius] on the Google Books Library Project * [http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn1/bredius Abraham Bredius] on inghist *[https://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Beteiligte/B/Bredius,%20Dr.%20A..html Bredius, Dr. Abraham in German Lost Art Foundation Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaften am NS-Kulturgutraub] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114081955/https://www.lostart.de/Content/051_ProvenienzRaubkunst/DE/Beteiligte/B/Bredius,%20Dr.%20A..html |date=2021-11-14 }}

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