Hendrick Mommers (bapt. 2 January 1620, in
Amsterdam
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– buried 21 December 1693, in Amsterdam), was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
landscape painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a Haarlem painter of vegetable market scenes, who was the first teacher of the young painter
Dirk Maas
Dirk Maas (12 September 1659 – 25 December 1717), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
Maas was born and died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken he was first a pupil of Hendrick Mommers, a Haarlem painter of vegetable mark ...
, who later took lessons from the more famous landscape painter
Nicolaes Berchem
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...
.
[Dirk Maas Biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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Mommers died at the age of 74 in 1697.
[ Houbraken also mentions Mommers in a poem about the ]Bentvueghels
The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique").
Activities
The members, which included ...
after the painter Dirk Visscher, who was called "Slempop". It is not clear if Houbraken intended to show that he had been Visscher's teacher, if he had shared the "Slempop" nickname, or if he was meant to be connected with another nickname, but Mommers did travel to Italy. Visscher is registered by the RKD as "Slempop" in Rome in 1707, or about the same time Houbraken was writing.
According to the RKD, Mommers became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke
The Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke was first a Christian, and later a city Guild for various trades falling under the patron saints Luke the Evangelist and Saint Eligius.
History
During the lifetime of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, there was probably a ...
in 1647, where he was last registered in 1665 when he appears to have moved to Amsterdam.[Hendrick Mommers]
in the RKD
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He is registered as a Berchem follower and an Italy traveller (without a nickname). Dirk Maas was his pupil.
References
External links
Hendrick Mommers
on Artnet
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1620 births
1693 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Dutch landscape painters
Painters from Amsterdam
Painters from Haarlem
Members of the Bentvueghels