Tako Hajo Jelgersma - Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn in Hofje van Noblet 1764

Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn (17 October 1727 in Amersfoort – 16 July 1797 in Amersfoort), was an 18th-century lawyer from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

After he studied law in Utrecht he moved to

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, where he joined several societies and consorted with

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, who appointed him in his testament as member of

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. He was an Orangist and during the Orangist uprising he became mayor of Haarlem in 1789 and 1790, but was ousted from the council in 1795 during the French occupation. He published an update of

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's ''History of Haarlem'' and was a regent of the

Hofje van Noblet The Hofje van Noblet is a hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands. History It was built in 1761 from the legacy of Leonard Noblet and his sisters Sara en Geertruida. The houses in the hofje are built in the garden of the house of the Noblet family, ' ...

. He had a summer house in Amersfoort called ''Randenbroek'', which is where he died. File:Haarlem-Hofje van Noblet-regentenkamers.jpg, Oosten de Bruyn's portrait, painted on his appointment as regent, hangs in the upper right corner of the regent's room in the Hofje van Noblet File:Jordanus Hoorn - G.W. van Oosten de Bruyn and family FHM01 OS-86-284 W.jpg, 10 years later in 1774 he commissioned a family portrait by

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, collection Frans Hals Museum

References

Author page
in the DBNL
Books by Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn
on the Google Books Library Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Oosten de Bruyn, Gerrit Willem van 1727 births 1797 deaths Dutch writers Members of Teylers Tweede Genootschap People from Amersfoort