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Pieter de Molijn (6 April 1595 in London – 23 March 1661 in
Pieter de Molijn (6 April 1595 in London – 23 March 1661 in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
) was a Dutch Golden Age
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painter and engraver of English birth and Flemish descent.
He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars
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church in London. He was born to Pieter de Moijn, from Ghent, and Lynken van den Bossche, from Brussels. It is possible that the family emigrated due to business rather than religious persecution. Little is known of his early training, but he probably traveled to Italy and in 1616 he became a member of the Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
Guild of St. Luke
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. He was a contemporary of Jacob Pinas
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. He married Geertuyt Huygen de Bie. During the years 1616–27 he lived in Delft
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where he remarried after his first wife died. In the marriage notice, his wife Geertruyt de Roovere is from Amsterdam and he is from Delft.
De Molijn was possibly a student of Esaias van de Velde. He taught several students, including Gerard ter Borch the Elder & his son
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, Jan Coelenbier
Jan Coelenbier (1610, Kortrijk – 1680, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Pieter de Molijn and became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1632.Allart van Everdingen, Christian de Hulst, Anthony Molijn (1635-1702), and
in the RKD De Molijn was known for his landscapes, but he also made genre pieces, marine scenes, portraits, and architectural pieces. This type of oeuvre is typical for the Italian-bound artists of his day, who paid their way as a jack-of-all-trades.
Anthony Molijn
in the RKD
Jan Wils
Jan Wils (22 February 1891 – 11 February 1972) was a Dutch architect. He was born in Alkmaar and died in Voorburg.
Wils was one of the founding members of the De Stijl movement, which also included artists as Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg ...
.Pieter de Molijnin the RKD De Molijn was known for his landscapes, but he also made genre pieces, marine scenes, portraits, and architectural pieces. This type of oeuvre is typical for the Italian-bound artists of his day, who paid their way as a jack-of-all-trades.
Pieter de Molijn the Younger ("Peter Tempesta")
According toArnold 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.
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Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, Pieter de Molijn had a son Pieter (1637–1701) who could also paint quite well, but who emigrated to Rome at a young age and became a member of the Bentvueghels
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with the nickname ''Tempeest''. He was thought to be a man of 50 by Isaac de Moucheron when he was in Rome (''Bent'' name ''Ordenantie'') in 1697. He specialized in ''wilde zwynenjagten'', or hunting scenes, in the manner of Frans Snyders. In Genoa he was imprisoned for 16 years for killing his wife. He was visited in prison by Jan Visser, a painter from the Bentvueghels known as ''Slempop''. When the French bombarded the city in 1684, he was set free and fled to Parma, where he lived to old age, painting with ''two eyeglasses, one in front of the other''.
According to the art historian Marcel Roethlisberger
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He completed his doctoral thesis on Jacopo Bellini in 1955. He married the art historian Biancamaria Bianco in 1962 ...
, the nickname ''Pietro Tempesta'' was given to another Haarlemmer, the painter Pieter Mulier II, who was given the name for painting ships in stormy seas. His RKD entry indicates that the only one of his sons who became a painter of note was his pupil Anthony.in the RKD
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