- sor, member of the Academy, and conservator
of the Royal Gallery in 1826. Order of Dannebrog, 1829; Officer, 1840. Works: Views of Castles Kronborg and Frederiksborg, Wetterhorn and Rosenlaui Glacier (1834), Wood-Path near Elsinore (1838), Copenhagen Gallery; Strait of Svendborg, Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen; Four Divisions of Day, Castle Christiansborg.—Raczynski, iii. 549; Weilbach, 506.
MÖLLER, NIELS BJÖRNSEN, born at
Drammen, Norway, in 1829. Landscape
painter, pupil of Copenhagen and Düsseldorf
Academies; visited Switzerland, Paris,
and the North of Europe. Medal, Vienna,
1873; lives in Düsseldorf. Works: Waterfall
in Norway; Wetterhorn; Nornäs in the
Sogne Fjord; Thun Lake; Harbour of Refuge
at Lysakiel; Pilot Watch; Swedish
Landscape (1860), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
View in Lysekil, Sweden (Jubilee Exhibition,
Berlin, 1886). His wife Johanna (née
Holmlund, born in 1825, died in Düsseldorf,
March 25, 1872), was a skilful genre painter.—Müller,
374; Kunst-Chronik, vii. 270.
MOLS, ROBERT, born at Antwerp, contemporary.
Landscape and marine painter
in Antwerp. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1874;
2d class, 1876. Works: Roadstead of Antwerp,
City Hall, Antwerp; Great Harbour
Reservoir in Antwerp; View of Rouen; Harbour
of Havre; Dordrecht (1884); On the
Scheldt (1885); Bordeaux (1886); Harbour
of Hamburg (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin,
(1886).—Müller, 374.
MOLTENI, GIUSEPPE, Cavaliere, born
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 exhibition
of a series of portraits, and in consequence
was afterwards employed at the
Imperial Court in Vienna; painted many
genre pictures of romantic tendency, and in
1855 became conservator of the Brera Gallery
in Milan, having entered the Senate of
the Academy in 1850. Works: Holy Family,
National Gallery, Berlin; Lady at Confessional
(1838), Vienna Museum; Pietà,
Three portraits, Fondazione Poldi-Pezzoli,
Milan.—Jordan (1885), ii. 154; Wurzbach,
xix. 29.
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MOLYN, PIETER DE, the elder, born
in London before 1600, died in Haarlem,
buried March 23, 1661. Dutch school;
landscape painter; entered Haarlem guild
in 1616, dean in 1633. Painted flat and
hilly landscapes with great truth; colouring
warm and forcible, skies of great transparency;
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 l'Élysée, Paris; Landscape with
Figures (1646), Berg Collection, Stockholm;
do. (2, 1657), Friesendorff Collection, ib.; do.
(1660), Redin Collection, ib.; do., Michaelson
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 Museum;
Attack of Robbers (1640), Hanover
Gallery; River Landscape (attributed to
Van Goyen), Mannheim Gallery.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 462; Nagler, Mon., iv. 649;
Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 350; Van der Willigen,
225; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 168; xiv. 96;
xvi. 60; xix. 369.
MOLYN, PIETER, the younger (called
Il 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
