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Frederik Johannes "Frits" Lugt (Amsterdam 4 May &#; 15 July Paris), was a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints and a selfless and tireless compiler of essential reference tools documenting Northern European prints and drawings, collectors' stamps and sale catalogues. An authority on Rembrandt's drawings, he collected all of the known etchings made by Rembrandt during his career.

Biography

Lugt was a precocious connoisseur who made a catalog of his own Museum Lugtius at age eight. Encouraged by his father, he became an art expert at a young age and cut short his formal education in to become an employee at the auction house of Frederik Muller in Amsterdam. Lugt's marriage in to Jacoba Klever (&#;), a woman of independent means, meant that he could pursue his interests without financial concerns. By he had become a partner of the firm, a position he held until One of his tasks at the auction house was the compilation of auctioneers'