Jan de Momper (ca. 1614-ca. 1688),
• Aalso known as Giovanni de Momper.
• Was a Flemish landscape painter.
• According to Italian sources he was born in Antwerp.
• Some art historian have suggested that he was the Joannes de Momper who was born on 16 August 1614 as the son of the painter Jan de Momper (II) and Elizabeth van Hoeswinckel.
• Jan de Momper (II) was a brother of the prominent landscape painter Joos de Momper.
• In the year 1657 the artist was recorded in Rome in connection with a commission to produce 9 landscapes for the prominent Roman Doria Pamphilj family.
• In 1661 he was a well-established painter in Rome.
• Jan de Momper joined the Bentvueghels, an organization of mainly Flemish and Dutch painters active in Rome.
• The bent name of Jan de Momper was 'Eervrucht' ('Fruit of Honour').
• There is no further sign of life of Jan de Momper after the report on the death of his wife in 1684.
• Jan de Momper's name as a painter was virtually lost until the art historian Roberto Longhi brought together a series of landscapes character.
