Frans Snyders, and afterwards, while in Italy, sea-storms and shipwrecks, whence his surname. Called also Pietro Mulier, or de Mulieribus, because he caused his wife to be assassinated in order to marry his mistress, for which he was imprisoned in Genoa five years; when liberated, he deserted his second wife and went to Milan, where he led a wild life, under the name of Pietro Muller. His works mark the decline of Dutch as well as Italian painting. Works: Plundering of a City in Winter, Military Camp, Brunswick Gallery; Italian Landscape with Repose in Egypt, Carlsruhe Gallery; Landscapes with Shepherds and Cattle (3), Cassel Gallery; Thunder-Storm (3), Landscape with John the Baptist, do. with Man and Oxen, Dresden Gallery; Sally from a Castle, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Signal Tower on Sea Coast, Oldenburg Gallery; Storm at Sea, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Four Landscapes, Schleissheim Gallery; Two Cattle-pieces, Museum, Vienna; Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1696), Five Landscapes, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Landscape with Figures and Dog, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Marine with Jonah and the Whale (2), do. with Christ and the Apostles Fishing (2), Galleria Estense, Modena; Cattle-pieces (2), Moonlight, Landing of Æneas in Italy, Historical Society, New York; others in Bergamo, Milan, Rome, and other Italian Galleries.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Immerzeel, ii. 225; Museo fiorentino, iii. 281; Nagler, Mon., iv. 649; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 425.
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MOMMERS, HENDRIK, born in Haarlem
in 1623, died there in 1697. Dutch
school; landscape and animal painter, master
of the guild in 1647, president in 1654;
studied nature in Italy, and on his return
home worked in the style of Karel du Jardin.
A vigorous and at the same time pleasing
tone prevails in his Italian vegetable
markets, marines, and pastures. Works:
Market, Brussels Museum; Mountain Landscape
with Shepherds and Sheep, Rotterdam
Museum; Market Square in Rome, Aschaffenburg
Gallery; Hilly Landscape with Shepherdess
and Boys, Berlin Museum; Animals
drinking at a Well, Ferdinandeum,
Innsbruck; Animal-piece with Shepherdess
Milking, Leipsic Museum; Landscape with
Cattle and Sheep, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
White Bull, Oldenburg Gallery; Herd Resting,
Schleissheim Gallery; Landscape with
Sale of Fruit, etc., do. with Riders, Liechtenstein
Gallery,
Vienna; Large
Landscape, Stockholm
Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 236; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 452; Kramm, iv. 1140.
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MOMPER, FRANS DE, born in Antwerp,
died there in 1660-61. Dutch school; landscape
painter, formed under the influence
of Dutch masters like Van Goyen and Roghman;
entered guild of Antwerp in 1629-30,
painted there, at Haarlem, and The Hague.
Work: View of Amsterdam, Berlin Museum.—Meyer,
Museen, 291, 562; Zeitschr. f b.
K., vii. 172.
MOMPER, JODOCUS (Joost, Josse) DE,
the younger, born in Antwerp in 1564, died
there between Nov. 2, 1634, and March 9,
1635. Flemish school; landscape painter,
son and pupil of Bartholomeus de Momper;
entered the guild in 1581, was its dean in
1611. Jan Brueghel, Frans Francken, the
younger, Hendrik van Balen, and Teniers,
the elder, his friends and fellow-workers,
painted the figures in his pictures. Works:
