Pieter Snayers
(1592 - 1667) |
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Figural Landscapes, Hunting Scenes, Portraiture Art Work
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Pieter Snayers |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Antwerp |
| Nationality: |
Flemish |
| Birth: |
1592 |
| Death: |
1667 |
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Quick Facts
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Figural Landscapes, Hunting Scenes, Portraiture |
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Baroque |
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Painting
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Biography
| A pupil of the military subject specialist Sebastian Vrancx, and the teacher of Adam Frans van der Meulen (a specialist in similar subjects), Pieter Snayers is considered the transitional figure between these two masters and is credited with introducing panoramic views and bird's-eye perspectives into the theme of hunting and battle subjects. Pieter joined the Antwerp Painters' Guild in 1612. He married a daughter of Cornelis Schut* in 1618 and was court painter to Archduke Albert around 1620. When Albert died in 1621, Pieter moved to Brussels with hopes of employment from Archduchess Isabella, and he joined the Brussels Guild in 1628. A number of works in the Prado were painted for the Archduchess, and upon her death in 1633 Snayers was appointed court painter for the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand (1634-41). He thereupon signed his works "Peeler Snayers del S.C.I. (Serenissimae Cardinalis Infantis) Pictor." Cardinal Ferdinand commissioned hunting scenes for Philip IV's hunting lodge (the Torre de la Parada). Some of Pieter's battle pictures were done for the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, for whom Snayers served as court painter from 1647 to 1655; and from 1656 through 1658 he was court painter to Don John of Austria. Prince Octavio Piccolomini, imperial commander in the Thirty Years' War, commissioned twenty-one battle pictures. Snayers also organized and designed decorations for Don John's entry into Brussels in 1656. Today Snayers is celebrated for his vast oeuvre of battle scenes, hunting episodes, and related subjects, including images of soldiers attacking towns or coaches. Such pictures of plundering were derived from Vrancx, who together with Esaias van de Velde* is credited with their introduction in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. |
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