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Cavalier Pietro Tempesta, or Pieter Mulier II (1637 – 29 June 1701) was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy.

Biography

Muller was born in Haarlem. He learned to paint from his father, Pieter Mulier I and travelled to Italy, working in Rome (1656–1670), Genoa (1670–1684) and northern Italy until he died in Milan. Among his pupils were

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and

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(active 1716 in Milan). He is known for Italianate landscapes in the manner of

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.Pieter Mulier
in the

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Italy

According to Arnold Houbraken, ''Tempeest'' was the son of

Pieter de Molijn Pieter de Molijn (6 April 1595 in London – 23 March 1661 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of English birth and Flemish descent. He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church in London. He was born to ...

, not Pieter Mulier. He could paint quite well, but he emigrated to

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at a young age and became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname ''Tempeest''.P. Molyn biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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He was thought to be a man of 50 by

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when he was in Rome (''Bent'' name ''Ordenantie'') in 1697. He specialized in ''wilde zwynenjagten'', or hunting scenes, in the manner of

Frans Snyders Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still lifes. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with ...

. In

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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

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, where he lived to old age, painting with ''two eyeglasses, one in front of the other''.

In Literature

Mulier is the subject of a poem by

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published in The Edinburgh Magazine, 1829,

References

painting from Genua period
on Christie's website * Marcel Roethlisberger, Cavalier Pietro Tempesta and his Time. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1970

External links

Pieter Mulier
on Artnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulier, Pieter 1637 births 1701 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Haarlem Members of the Bentvueghels