Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1 November 1767 – 19 June 1847) was a Dutch art collector. He was born in

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...

and died in

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. After long negotiations with the then-mayor of

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Bichon van IJsselmonde, which were only concluded eight days before Boijmans' death, he left his collection of paintings to the town. They were initially housed in the Schielandshuis (which had been bought by the town council in 1841), which reopened as the Museum Boijmans on 3 July 1849.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boijmans, Frans People from Maastricht Dutch art collectors 1767 births 1847 deaths 19th-century Dutch people