Abraham Preyer
Dutch art dealer
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Abraham Preyer (7 August 1862 – 27 May 1927) was a Dutch art dealer and collector, active in Amsterdam and The Hague, and who had firms, Preyer & Co, and Kunsthandel A. Preyer.
He was born Abraham Preijer in Amsterdam on 7 August 1862, the son of Christoffel Jan Preijer and Helena Maria Westenberg.
Preyer's collection of Dutch Old Masters was considered "one of the finest in Europe".[1]
He sold works to fellow dealer Jacques Goudstikker, including Jan Steen's Sacrifice of Iphigenia in 1926.[2]
In 1926, Preyer made a large donation to build the Collège néerlandais in Paris in memory of his son Arthur Preyer, a lieutenant in the American Air Force who died in Italy on 18 August 1918.[3]
He married Wilhelmina Keij (1867–1944) on 23 April 1891 in Baarn, Netherlands.[1] They had four daughters and one son, William Arthur Preyer, born in Chicago on 4 July 1893.[4]
He died in Brussels, Belgium on 27 May 1927.[1]