Hendrick Mommers (bapt. 2 January 1620, in Amsterdam – buried 21 December 1693, in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
According to Houbraken he was a Haarlem painter of vegetable present scenes, who was the first speculative of the juvenile painter Dirk Maas, who progressive took lessons from the more well-known landscape painter Nicolaes Berchem. Mommers died at the age of 74 in 1697. Houbraken along with mentions Mommers in a poem roughly the Bentvueghels after the painter Dirk Visscher, who was called “Slempop”. It is not clear if Houbraken designed to decree that he had been Visscher’s teacher, if he had shared the “Slempop” nickname, or if he was intended to be connected in the tune of another nickname, but Mommers did travel to Italy. Visscher is registered by the RKD as “Slempop” in Rome in 1707, or more or less the same time Houbraken was writing.
According to the RKD, Mommers became a believer of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke in 1647, where he was last registered in 1665 with he appears to have moved to Amsterdam. He is registered as a Berchem aficionada and an Italy traveller (without a nickname). Dirk Maas was his pupil.
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