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Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders [1] (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp [2]) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes, and still lifes. A versatile artist, his works depict all sorts of foods, utensils and tableware and wide assortment of animals.
Frans Snyders was a Baroque artist who was the most-noted 17th-century painter of animals. His subjects included still lifes of markets and pantries (featuring both live animals and dead game), animals in combat, and hunting scenes.
Frans Snyders or Frans Snijders (11 November 1579, Antwerp – 19 August 1657, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still lifes. He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp.
Apr 9, 2024 · Frans Snyders was the first specialist in a new Flemish form of still life: the animal still life. Born in Antwerp, he studied under Pieter Brueghel the Younger. In 1608 he made the requisite painter's trip to Italy to view its works of art.
Frans Snyders (1579–1657) English Heritage, Kenwood. (bapt. Antwerp, 11 Nov. 1579; d Antwerp, 19 Aug. 1657). Flemish painter of animals, hunting scenes, and still life, active mainly in Antwerp. He was a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and perhaps of Hendrick van Balen.
Jan 1, 2016 · Snyders, Frans. Antwerp, 1579 - Antwerp, 1657. Snyders is one of the 17th-century Flemish painters of highest repute, both for his still lifes and for his hunting scenes, and was very well known and appreciated, particularly in Spain.
One of the great Netherlandish Old Masters, Frans Snyders (or Snijders) was the undisputed Baroque master of still life painting and animal subjects. Influenced by his teacher Pieter Brueghel the Younger, his most notable works include Wild Boar Hunt, 1649 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence); Still Life with a Swan, 1613 (The Pushkin Museum of ...
