Pieter Jan Snyers

Pieter Jan Snyers or Petrus Johannes Snijers, first name also 'Peeter Johannes' (Antwerp, 1696 - Antwerp, 21 September 1757) was a Flemish painter. He is known for his still life paintings with game.[1]

Still life of game with a couple of lovers

Life

Pieter Jan Snyers was born in Antwerp.[1] He was the nephew of Pieter Snyers who was his teacher.[2] He was registered as a pupil of Pieter Snyers at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1712–13. He was not registerd as master at the guild as he was an amateur painter.[1] He served five times as the deacon of the Guild.[3]

When his uncle Pieter Snyers died in 1752, Pieter Jan inherited his large collection of art which included works of major artists of the preceding century.[4] As heir to his considerable art collection which was fairly well documented, Snyers' name regularly appears as one of the names in the provenance of Flemish and Dutch master paintings.[5]

He died in Antwerp.[1]

Work

As Pieter Jan Snyers was likely not a professional painter his works are very scarce. His subjects were hunting scenes and in particular small sized ones.[6]

Notes
  1. Petrus Johannes Snijers at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  2. Reginald Howard Wilenski, Flemish Painters, 1430-1830, Viking Press, 1960, p. 369
  3. Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (eds.), De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde Volume 2, Antwerp, 1864, pp. 682, 771, 791 (in Dutch)
  4. The Collector's Cabinet: Flemish Paintings from New England Private Collections, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1983, p. 112.
  5. Snyers (Peeter) in: Christiaan Kramm, De levens en werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters, van den vroegsten tot op onzen tijd. Gebroeders Diederichs, Amsterdam 1857-1864 (in Dutch)
  6. "Snyers, Pieter Jan" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889


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