Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans
Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1 November 1767 – 19 June 1847) was a Dutch art collector. He was born in Maastricht and died in Utrecht.
After long negotiations with the then-mayor of Rotterdam , which were only concluded eight days before Boijmans' death, he left his collection of paintings to the town. They were initially housed in the (which had been bought by the town council in 1841), which reopened as the Museum Boijmans on 3 July 1849.
External links[]
- "Boijmans Collection Online | Private Collectors: Founders of the Museum". collectie.boijmans.nl. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
Categories:
- People from Maastricht
- Dutch art collectors
- 1767 births
- 1847 deaths
- 19th-century Dutch people