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SNAPHAAN (Schnaphan), ABRAHAM, born in Leyden, Nov. 2, 1651, died Sept. 1, 1691. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter in the manner of the elder Frans van Mieris. His best pictures are often confounded with those of Willem van Mieris. He was court painter to the prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Work: Lady at Toilet receiving Letter, Berlin Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 544.
SNAYERS, PEETER, born in Antwerp,
baptized Nov. 24,
1592, died in
Brussels in 1667.
Flemish school;
painter of battles,
camp scenes, portraits,
and landscapes,
pupil of
Hendrik van Balen
and of Sebastian
Vrancx; entered
the guild in 1613; court painter at
Brussels in 1624 to Archduke Albert and to
Cardinal Infant Ferdinand. Works: Battle
of the Forty, Hampton Court; Siege of
Courtrai (1650), Battles of Prague, of Wimpffen,
and of Hoechst, Brussels Museum;
Cavalry Charge, Combat of Horsemen, Ghent
Museum; Forest Path with Wanderers, Defence
of a Village, Berlin Museum; Battle
Field of Pavia, Male Portrait, Cassel Gallery;
Travelling Coach attacked by Horsemen (?),
Darmstadt Museum; Traveller in Mountainous
Country (1669), Robbers attacked
by Armed Men, three others, Dresden Museum;
Pantry with Game, Fruit, etc., Städel
Gallery, Frankfort; Battle on White Mountain
near Prague, Battle between Spaniards
and Hollanders, Schleissheim Gallery; Raising
of Siege of Louvain (1639), Defeat at
Grancourt (1641), Battle of Thionville (1642),
Battle of Lützen (1642), Siege of Einbeck
(1644), Relief of St. Omer (1645), Taking
of Neuburg (1645), Encounter at Presnitz
(1648), Relief of Freiburg (1648), Crossing
of the Somme (1662), Attack of Grancourt,
Engagement near Munich in 1648, three
others, Museum, Vienna; Skirmish by Forest
Border (1657), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.;
Cavalry Skirmish, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Capture
of Ypres, Lille and Dunkirk, Nocturnal
Attack on Lille, Siege of Gravelines, and
thirteen others, Madrid Museum.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 339; Ch. Blanc, École flamande;
Kramm, v. 1534; Michiels, vii. 272; Rooses
(Reber), 409; Van den Branden, 666.
SNELLINCK (Snellinx), JAN, the elder,
born in Mechlin
in 1549, died
in Antwerp,
Oct. 1, 1638.
Flemish school;
history painter;
settled at Antwerp
before
1574. Velvet
Brueghel and
his son, and
most of the painters of the epoch, were his
friends. Archduke Albert, to whom he was
court painter, and the churches of Flanders
employed his brush extensively. Van Dyck
painted his portrait. Designed carpet patterns
for factory at Oudenarde. His most
interesting work is: Crucifixion (1597), Museum,
Antwerp. Other works: Madonna
with singing Angels and St. Cecilia, St.
James's, ib.; Altarpiece with Resurrection
(1601), St. Romuald's, Mechlin; Descending
of the Holy Ghost (1606), St. Catharine's,
ib.; Creation of Adam (1608), Church of
Our Lady, Oudenarde; Transfiguration of
Christ (1616), Annunciation, St. Walpurgis,
ib. Five of his sons were painters.—Ch.
Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers
(1874), 342; Kramm, v. 1535; Michiels,
vi. 221; Rooses (Reber), 109; Siret (1883),
ii. 281; Van den Branden, 431.