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

1. Petrus Johannes Snijers at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
2. "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 the article "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 publication now in the public domain.