The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Arnold Braems, Sir ( - )

Flemish Merchant. Associated with Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen. References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a) [*] Cornelius Jansen “in 1636 and the next following years resided with Sir Arnold Braems, a Flemish merchant at Bridge [Place], near Canterbury.” (Dallaway’s note in Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England, ii. 10, Lond. 1828.) His portrait of Dean Bargrave is in the Deanery at Canterbury, and was lent for the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866.