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 *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.

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