Market Scene

Private collection

genre

The painting represents women in front of Roman ruins. Such market scenes were a specialty of Mommers, who was a student of Nicolaes Berchem.

About the Artist

Hendrick Mommers

1623 – 1693

Dutch painter, a specialist in painting vegetable market scenes. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke in 1647, where he was last registered in 1665 when he appears to have moved to Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem whose style of Italianate landscapes he followed, and is even registered as working in Italy, but it is unknown when he was there or with whom. Dirk Maas was his pupil.

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