Frans Snyders belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Frans Snyders as Flemish painter (1579–1657).
Frans Snyders was born at Antwerp in 1579.
This was the period in which observation began to outrank inherited authority, and printing let work reach readers who would never meet its author.
Frans Snyders is described as painter and architectural drafter.
Frans Snyders is associated first and foremost with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
The surviving body of work includes Still Life with Huntsman, Still Life with a Dead Stag and Still life with small game and fruits.
His recorded fields of work are painting.
Death came in 1657, at 78. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Still Life with Huntsman
- Notable work: Still Life with a Dead Stag
- Notable work: Still life with small game and fruits
- Worked as painter and architectural drafter
