Philippe de Momper was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken who called him simply 'Momper' in a poem about the members 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:...

, he joined the Bent with the name "Eervrugt" and was a landscape painter from Antwerp.

According to the RKD he was the son of Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper

Joos de Momper the Younger , also known as Josse de Momper, is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens...

 and the brother of Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper, a Flemish landscape painter, who was a native of Antwerp, is inscribed in the ' Liggere' of the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1629-30. He died at Antwerp in 1660-61. There are by him in the Augsburg Gallery, 'St. Philip baptizing the Eunuch,' and a 'Rocky Scene,' in which the...

, who travelled to Italy with Jan Brueghel the Younger

Jan Brueghel the Younger

Jan Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish Baroque painter, and the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder.He was trained by his father and spent his career producing works in a similar style. Along with his brother Ambrosius, he produced landscapes, allegorical scenes and other works of meticulous detail. ...

 in the years 1622-1624. He became a member as a master's son of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke on his return to Antwerp in November, 1624.