Pieter de Molijn was a Dutch Golden Age

Dutch Golden Age

The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 painter and engraver born in England.

Biography

He was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. Little is known of his early training, but he probably traveled to Italy and in 1616 he became a member of the Haarlem

Haarlem

Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...

 Guild of St. Luke. He was a contemporary of Jacob Pinas. He married Geertuyt Huygen de Bie. During the years 1616-1627 he lived in Delft

Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam and The Hague....

 where he remarried after his first wife died. In the marriage notice, his wife Geertruyt de Roovere is from Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 and he is from Delft.

De Molijn was possibly a student of Esaias van de Velde

Esaias van de Velde

Esaias van de Velde was a Dutch landscape painter.-Biography:Born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585, he probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo, a landscape painter from Antwerp and a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder...

. He taught several students, including Gerard ter Borch

Gerard ter Borch

Gerard ter Borch was a Dutch genre painter, who lived in the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:Gerard ter Borch was born in December 1617 in Zwolle in the province of Overijssel in the Dutch Republic....

, Jan Coelenbier

Jan Coelenbier

Jan Coelenbier, a Dutch landscape painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a native of Utrecht. He became a pupil of Van Goyen, whose works he imitated so closely that they passed for the originals. He was received into the Guild of St. Luke at Haarlem in 1632, and was still living in...

, Allart van Everdingen, Christian de Hulst, Anthony Molijn, Jan Nose and Jan Wils. De Molijn was known for his landscapes, but he also made genre pieces, marine scenes, portraits,
and architectural pieces. This type of oeuvre is typical for the Italian-bound artists of his day, who paid their way as a jack-of-all-trades. De Molijn died in Haarlem on 23 March 1661.

Pieter de Molijn the Younger ("Peter Tempesta")

According to Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken

Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. He had ten children. His son Jacobus Houbraken was an engraver of portraits and book illustrations, including books by his father...

, Pieter de Molijn had a son Pieter (1637–1701) who could also paint quite well, but who emigrated to Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 at a young age and became a member of the Bentvueghels

Bentvueghels

The Bentvueghels were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent .-Activities:...

 with the nickname Tempeest. He was thought to be a man of 50 by Isaac de Moucheron

Isaac de Moucheron

Isaac de Moucheron , was an 18th century painter and interior decorator from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:...

 when he was in Rome (Bent name Ordenantie) in 1697. He specialized in wilde zwynenjagten, or hunting scenes, in the manner of Frans Snyders. In Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

 he was imprisoned for 16 years for killing his wife. He was visited in prison by Jan Visser, a painter from the Bentvueghels known as Slempop. When the French bombarded the city

Bombardment of Genoa

The Bombardment of Genoa was a military event during the War of the Reunions when France bombarded the city of Genoa from the sea between May 18 and May 28 1684.- Background :...

 in 1684, he was set free and fled to Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

, where he lived to old age, painting with two eyeglasses, one in front of the other.

According to the art historian Marcel Roethlisberger

Marcel Roethlisberger

Marcel Roethlisberger or Röthlisberger, born 1929, is a Swiss art historian and retired professor from the University of Geneva.-Biography:...

, the nickname Pietro Tempesta was given to another Haarlemmer, the painter Pieter Mulier II

Pieter Mulier II

Cavalier Pietro Tempesta, or Pieter Mulier II was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy.-Biography:Muller was born in Haarlem. He learned to paint from his father, Pieter Mulier I and travelled to Italy, working in Rome , Genoa and northern Italy until he died in Milan. He took on the pupil...

, who was given the name for painting ships in stormy seas. His RKD entry indicates that the only one of his sons who became a painter of note was his pupil Anthony.