Frans Snyders

Frans Snyders ( born November 11, 1579 Antwerp, † August 19, 1657 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter.

Frans Snyders was a pupil of Pieter Bruegel the Younger. Hendrick van Balen also one of their teachers. He stayed mainly in his native city of Antwerp. There he ran a large studio and produced with numerous students, including Jan Fyt counted, commission work on. He created great still life and also made ​​a name for itself in animal painting. His preferred representations include hunting, game and poultry. He often worked here together with Rubens. The correct allocation of countless works of Frans Snyders is difficult to date. Snyders and Rubens believed that one could identify their works on distinctive style, and therefore rarely signed. To false attributions occurred since successors (eg Jan Fyt ) copied designs of their teachers and recordings in their Vorzeichnungskataloge. The up to now partially disputed authorship of their work moves between the unwiderlegten statements of Bordley and the monograph by Hella Robels that hits just purely stylistic assignments. Robels holds about that with " F. Snyder's " Autographed Picture of dead fish from a dog guard for the work of another artist.

As typical of Frans Snyders large-scale early creative phase of His work " Fighting dogs and bears" (formerly collection Jacob Christian Jacobsen ).