# Abraham Bredius

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{{Short description|Dutch art collector (1855–1946)}}
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| image              = Haverman Bredius.jpg
| caption            = Bredius, by [Hendrik Haverman](/source/Hendrik_Haverman), 1899
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1855|04|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), Netherlands
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1946|03|13|1855|04|18|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [Monaco](/source/Monaco)
| occupation         = Art collector, art historian, museum curator
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'''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](/source/Raising_of_the_Cross_(study%2C_Rembrandt)) by Dutch painter [Rembrandt](/source/Rembrandt). The painting is still located in the [Museum Bredius](/source/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](/source/Mauritshuis). He became a [Rembrandt](/source/Rembrandt) expert who had many differences of opinion with [Cornelis Hofstede de Groot](/source/Cornelis_Hofstede_de_Groot). He was a regular contributor to the art history journal ''[Oud Holland](/source/Oud_Holland)'' and compiled the ''Künstler-Inventare'' series. 

In 1922, he left the Netherlands for health reasons and settled in [Monaco](/source/Monaco), publishing books in 1927 on [Jan Steen](/source/Jan_Steen) and, in 1935, a [catalog](/source/Rembrandt_catalog_raisonn%C3%A9%2C_1935) of [Rembrandt](/source/Rembrandt) paintings, often referred to in the literature as "Bredius 1935". He bequeathed his papers to the [Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie](/source/Rijksbureau_voor_Kunsthistorische_Documentatie), and his art collection lives on in the [Museum Bredius](/source/Museum_Bredius). He also bequeathed several Rembrandt paintings to the National Dutch collection, including Rembrandt's ''[Homer Dictating his Verses](/source/Homer_Dictating_his_Verses)''.

== Donation A. Bredius ==
In 1894 Bredius donated over 150 objects of his collection to the [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam](/source/Rijksmuseum_Amsterdam). 

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Maria met kind en de heilige Anna Rijksmuseum SK-A-1500.jpeg|Madonna and Child, [Dirk van Hoogstraten](/source/Dirk_van_Hoogstraten), 1630
Gezicht op de stad Haarlem over het Spaarne bij de Eendjespoort, SK-A-1594.jpg|View of [Haarlem](/source/Haarlem), [Balthasar van der Veen](/source/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==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101127121651/http://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/brediusa.htm Abraham Bredius] in the [Dictionary of Art Historians](/source/Dictionary_of_Art_Historians)

==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?q=Abraham+Bredius Books by Abraham Bredius] on the [Google Books Library Project](/source/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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Category:19th-century Dutch LGBTQ people
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