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• co, ib.; Certosa near Pavia (1857), Emperor

of Austria.—Wurzbach. xviii. 449.

MOL, PEETER VAN, born in Antwerp, Nov. 17, 1599, died in Paris, April 8, 1650. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Seger van de Grave; imitator of Rubens. Master of the guild in 1622-23, went to Paris in 1631, and was one of the founders of the Academy of Painting in 1648. His colour is heavy and wanting in harmony. Works: Adoration of Magi, Antwerp Museum; Descent from the Cross, Louvre; do., in Lille and Reims Museums; Adoration of the Shepherds, Marseilles Museum; Diogenes with the Lantern, Orléans Museum; Continence of Scipio, Rouen Museum; An Elder, Lyons Museum; Pharaoh's Daughter, Mentz Museum; Isaac blessing Jacob, Berlin Museum; Ecce Homo, Amsterdam Museum; Head of St. John Baptist, Copenhagen Museum; Portrait of David Teniers the elder; do. of Anna of Austria.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Jal, 868; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 316; Kramm, iv. 1138; Rooses (Reber), 327; Van den Branden, 765.

MOLA, PIETRO FRANCESCO, born at Coldre, near Como, in 1612, died in Rome, May 13, 1666. Bolognese school; son of Giovanni Battista Mola, an architect; pupil in Rome of Cavaliere d'Arpino; afterwards studied in Venice, and settled at Bologna, where he became the friend and pupil of Albani. Returned to Rome and was patronized by Innocent X., by Alexander VII., Queen Christina of Sweden, and by most of the nobility. He became prince of the Academy of St. Luke, and was invited to France by Louis XIV., who offered him a large salary; but Mola died while making preparations for his departure. He painted both historical subjects and landscapes. His manner is somewhat like that of Guercino. Among his works are: St. Peter delivered from Prison, and Conversion of St. Paul, in the Church del Gesù, Rome; Joseph making himself known to his Brethren, Quirinal Palace, Rome; Assumption, St. Michael the Archangel, S. Marco, Rome; Adoration of the Magi, do. of the Shepherds, and Painter's portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Abraham and Hagar, Capitol, Rome; St. Bruno, Palazzo Doria, Rome; Vision of St. Rombold, Naples Museum; St. John preaching in the Wilderness, Repose in Egypt, National Gallery, London; Baptism of Christ, Copenhagen Gallery; Death of Dido, Hero by the Body of Leander, Dresden Museum; Marriage of St. Catharine, Königsberg Museum; The Magdalen in a Cavern, Abraham casting off Hagar, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Jacob in Conversation with Rachel (2), Repose in Egypt, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Rape of Europa, Leuchtenberg Gallery, ib.; St. John predicting the Coming of the Messiah, Stuttgart Museum; Hero finding Leander's Body, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Repose in Egypt, Harrach Gallery, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise; Burckhardt, 764, 793, 808.

MOLENAER, CORNELIS, called Strabo or Neel de Scheeler (cross-eyed), born in Antwerp about 1540, died there after 1591. Flemish school; landscape painter of great merit; master of the guild in 1564. His pictures show a certain grandeur of composition, fine colouring and perspective, and especially elaborate treatment of trees. Painted by the day like a workman and often finished a landscape per diem, for which he was paid a daelder (1 fl. 50). Works: Winter Landscape with Skaters, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Wood do. with Good Samaritan, Berlin Museum; Peasant Company, Flemish School, Peasants Dancing, Stuttgart Museum; Winter Landscape, Stockholm Museum; Three