Pieter Jan Snyers
Pieter Jan Snyers or Petrus Johannes Snijers (1696 - 21 September 1757) was a Flemish painter.
Life
Pieter Jan Snyers was born in Antwerp. He was the nephew of Pieter Snyers who was his teacher. He was registered as a pupil with the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1712–13. It is not clear at which date he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. He served five times as the deacon of the Guild.[1]
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.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b Petrus Johannes Snijers at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ "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
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Snyers, Pieter Jan". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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