HOLLER sor, member of the Academy, and conserva- tor of the Royal Gallery in 1826. Order of Danuebrog, 1829 ; Officer, 1840. Works : Views of Castles Kronborg and Frederiks- borg, Wetterhorn and llosenlaui Glacier (1834), Wood-Path near Elsinore (1838), Copenhagen Gallery ; Strait of Svendborg, Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen ; Four Divisions of Day, Castle Christiausborg. Raczyuski, iii. 549 ; Weilbach, 500. MOLLER, NIELS BJORNSEN, born at Drammen, Norway, in 1829. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen and Diissel- dorf Academies ; visited Switzerland, Paris, and the North of Europe. Medal, Vienna, 1873 ; lives in Diisseldorf. Works : Water- fall in Norway ; Wetterhorn ; Noruiis in the Sogne Fjord ; Thun Lake ; Harbour of Ref- uge at Lvsakiel ; Pilot Watch ; Swedish Landscape (18(!0), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; View in Lysekil, Sweden (Jubilee Exhibi- tion, Berlin, 188G). His wife Johanna (nee Holmlund, born in 1825, died in Diisseldorf, March 25, 1872), was a skilful genre painter. Miiller, 374 ; Kunst-Chronik, vii. 270. MOLS, ROBERT, born at Antwerp, con- temporary. Landscape and marine painter in Antwerp. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1874 ; 2d class, 1870. Works : Roadstead of Ant- werp, City Hall, Antwerp ; Great Harbour Reservoir in Antwerp ; View of Rouen ; Har- bour of Havre ; Dordrecht (1884) ; On the Scheldt (1885) ; Bordeaux (1886) ; Harbour of Hamburg (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, (1886). Miiller, 374. MOLTENI, GIUSEPPE, Cavaliere, bom at Affori, near Milan, Oct. 23, 1800, died in Milan, Jan. 11, 1867. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Milan Academy ; attracted attention in 1829 through the ex- hibition of a series of portraits, and in con- sequence was afterwards employed at the Imperial Court in Vienna ; painted many genre pictures of romantic tendency, and in 1855 became conservator of the Brera Gal- lery in Milan, having entered the Senate of the Academy in 1850. Works : Holy Fami- ly, National Gallery, Berlin ; Lady at Con- 1 fessional (1838), Vienna Museum ; Pieta, Three portraits, Fondazione Poldi-Pezzoli,
- Milan. Jordan (1885), ii. 154 ; Wurzbach,
xix. 29. MOLYN, PIETER DE, the elder, born in London before 1600, died in Haarlem, buried March 23, 1661. Dutch school ; I landscape painter ; entered Haarlem guild I in 1616, dean in 1633. Painted flat and hilly landscapes with great truth ; colouring warm and forcible, skies of great transpar- ency ; excellent draughtsman ; also painted military scenes. Works : Night Festival (1625), Brussels Museum ; Rural Frolic, Aschaffenburg Gallery ; Sandy Height with Group of Trees (1626), Brunswick Gallery ; Winter Landscape with Skaters (1626), Venice Academy ; Village Plundered (1630), Haarlem Museum ; Cavalry Attack (1643), Palais de 1'Elysi'e, Paris ; Landscape with Figures (1646), Berg Collection, Stockholm ; do. (2, 1657), Friesendorff Collection, ib.; do. (1660), Rediu Collection, ib.; do., Michael- son Collection, ib.; do., Sander Collection, ib. ; Ravine with Figures, Berlin Museum ; Horsemen before Inn, Vienna Academy ; Landscape, Czernin Gallery, Vienna ; do., Uffizi, Florence ; Farm Yard, Rotterdam Museum ; In the Downs, Bordeaux Muse- um ; Attack of Robbers (1640), Hanover Gallery ; River Landscape (attributed to Van Goyen), Mannheim Gallery. Kugler (Crowe), ii. 462 ; Nagler, Mon., iv. 649 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 350 ; Van der Willigen, 225 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, vii. 168 ; xiv. 96 ; xvi. 60 ; xix. 369. MOLYN, PIETER, the younger (called II Cavaliere Tempesta), born in Haarlem in 1637, died in Milan, June 29, 1701. Dutch school ; son of Pieter the elder. At first painted animals and hunts in the style of 280
