Career
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.
Braamcamp "s family originated in Rijssen.
In 1699 his father January (1671-1713) married the widow Hendriena van Beeck (-1721) in a "schuilkerk" in Amsterdam - she lived on the North.Z. Achterburgwal, now called the Spuistraat, where Gerrit also grew up.