History
Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, born in 1858, collected art for most of his life, making his most expensive and important additions between 1897 and his death in 1901. His mother built a neo-gothic house in the banking district of Antwerp between 1901 and 1904, as a museum for the collection of some 1,000 pieces of mostly Northern Renaissance art.
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