Josse de Momper. Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost de Momper the Younger was one of the foremost Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.
Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momper's paintings. Joos de Momper was born in an artistic family of Antwerp and was named after his grandfather who was a landscape painter.
His father was and his mother Suzanna Halfroose. He learned to paint from his father Bartholomeus de Momper the Elder who was a painter, art dealer, printer and publisher.
In 1581 he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke at only 17 years old. It was assumed that in the 1580s he travelled to Italy to study.
Evidence for this trip was provided when landscape frescoes in the church of San Vitale in Rome, formerly attributed to Paul Bril, were given to Joos de Momper the Younger. On 4 September 1590 he married Elisabeth Godijn. The couple had 10 children of whom Philippe de Momper became a painter. De Momper enjoyed high-level patronage as is shown by the fact that Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the governess of the Southern Netherlands, sent in 1616 a letter to the Antwerp magistrate asking him to excuse de Momper from the payment of taxes and fees. THe artist could use the tax exemption as in his later years he was not able to paint as diligently as before and he was spending to much money at the inn. His reg
Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momper's paintings. Joos de Momper was born in an artistic family of Antwerp and was named after his grandfather who was a landscape painter.
His father was and his mother Suzanna Halfroose. He learned to paint from his father Bartholomeus de Momper the Elder who was a painter, art dealer, printer and publisher.
In 1581 he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke at only 17 years old. It was assumed that in the 1580s he travelled to Italy to study.
Evidence for this trip was provided when landscape frescoes in the church of San Vitale in Rome, formerly attributed to Paul Bril, were given to Joos de Momper the Younger. On 4 September 1590 he married Elisabeth Godijn. The couple had 10 children of whom Philippe de Momper became a painter. De Momper enjoyed high-level patronage as is shown by the fact that Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the governess of the Southern Netherlands, sent in 1616 a letter to the Antwerp magistrate asking him to excuse de Momper from the payment of taxes and fees. THe artist could use the tax exemption as in his later years he was not able to paint as diligently as before and he was spending to much money at the inn. His reg
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