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Snyders, Frans
Snyders, Frans (1579–1657). Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, and still life, active mainly in his native Antwerp. He was a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and travelled in Italy 1608–9. Back in Antwerp, he became a close friend of Rubens, also recently returned from Italy (he was eventually executor of Rubens's will). Snyders often collaborated with Rubens; he painted animals, fruits, and flowers in Rubens's pictures, and Rubens painted figures in his. He later had the same kind of reciprocal arrangement with Jordaens, and also collaborated with van Dyck, Janssen, and Cornelis de Vos (his brother-in-law). Snyders's independent works show he was the finest animal painter of his time; the best are his scenes of fighting wild animals and hunts, which have a tremendous sense of Baroque vitality.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Snyders, Frans." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Snyders, Frans." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-SnydersFrans.html IAN CHILVERS. "Snyders, Frans." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-SnydersFrans.html |
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