Momper, Joos (Jodocus) de (1564–1635)

Flemish landscape painter. Like his immediate predecessor Pieter Brueghel the Elder, he often gave his landscapes a high viewpoint, his panoramas inspired by his journeys through Switzerland and Italy. Typical of his winter scenes is The Flight from Egypt (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

Momper was born in Antwerp, the principal member of a family of artists and son-in-law of the painter Joos de Momper (1500–1559). He worked in a landscape style that was a link between Pieter Brueghel and Adam Elsheimer, and often employed other Antwerp painters, such as Jan ‘Velvet’ Brueghel, to paint in incidental figures.