Frederic Count de Thoms

German art collector (1696-1746) Date Of Birth : 1669-01-01T00:00Z,1696-10-15T00:00Z Date Of Death : 1746-09-07T00:00Z

Frederic Count de Thoms (1669–1746) was a German art collector with various influential political ties. He was born in Giessen. He wrote a biography of Louis XIV of France in 1715, and became secretary to King George I of Great Britain in 1719. During his stay in Italy he received the title of count. In 1741 he settled down in Leiden and married Joanna Maria Boerhaave, daughter of the famous Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave. Part of his art collection is still on display in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and in the Geldmuseum in Utrecht. An anonymous portrait is kept by the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden.

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