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SNYDERS SNYDERS, FRANS, born in Antwerp, baptized Nov. 11, 1579, died there, Aug. 19, 1657. Flemish school ; animal and still-life painter, pupil of Pieter Brueghel, the younger, and of Hendrik van Balen; master of the guild in 1602; visited Ita- ly in 1608-9; paint- ed especially for Philip IV. of Spain and Archduke Leopold William, and was held in great affection by Rubens, who in his will appointed him, with Jan Wildens and Jacob Moermans, to preside over the sale of his objects of art ; often worked conjointly with Rubens and Jordaens, and Van Dyck repeatedly painted his por- trait. Works : Bear Hunt, Lion Hunt, Grosvenor Gallery, London ; Still -Life, South Kensington Museum, ib. ; Fox Hunt, Fable of the Hare and the Tortoise, do. of the Lion and the Mouse, Fox and Cat, Wild Beasts fighting for Prey, seventeen others, Madrid Museum ; Earthly Paradise, Entry of Animals into Noah's Ark, Stag Hunt, five others, Louvre ; Dead Game and Fruits, Brussels Museum ; Swans and Dog, Still- Life, Antwerp Museum ; Stag Hunt (land- scape by Rubens), Kitchen (figures by Ru- bens), Hague Museum ; Still-Life (2), Am- sterdam Museum ; Boar attacked by Dogs, Rotterdam Museum ; Dog seizing Heron, Musee Rath, Geneva ; Bird Catching, Still- Life, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle ; Boar Hunt, Greyhounds, Brunswick Gallery ; Great Kitchen-Piece, two others, Cassel Gal- lery ; Combat of Animals, Stag Hunt, Stii- del Gallery, Frankfort ; Swans and Ducks attacked by Dogs, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Game and Fruit, Various Fruits, Copen- hagen Gallery ; Hunts and Still- Life (5), Stockholm Museum ; fourteen pictures, Her- mitage, St. Petersburg ; four Dogs' Heads, Still- Life, Cock Fight (1615), Bear Hunt (attributed), Berlin Museum ; Boar Hunt, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Kitchen (figures by Rubens), nine others, Dresden Gallery ; Two Lions pursuing Deer (masterpiece), Boar Hunt, Greengrocer's Stall, four others, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Boar Hunt, Dead Game watched by Dogs, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg ; Fish Market (2), Kitchen with Dead Birds (16U), Oldenburg Gallery ; Fruit Festoon around Christ and St. John (figures by Rubens), Falcon Chase, Schleiss- heim Gallery ; Boar Hunt, Fox Hunt, Stag Hunt, Daniel in Lions' Den (after Rubens), Earthly Paradise, Deer Hunt, Vienna Mu- seum ; Hen defending herself against Fal- con, Pesth Museum ; Boar Hunt, Uffizi, Florence ; Fruit, _, /> The Greengro- ^ J jy cer, New York Museum.-Ch. f Blanc, Ecole fla- ' mande ; Immer- zeel, iii. 97 ; Kramm, v. 1537 ; Michiels, vii. 408 ; Rooses (Reber), 255 ; Van den Bran- den, 672 ; Zeitschr. f . b. K., xi. (Mitthei- lungen, iv. 45). SNYERS, PEETER, born in Antwerp, March 30, 1681, died there, May 4, 1752. Flemish school ; landscape, flower, portrait, and genre painter, pupil of Alexander van Bredael ; master of Antwerp guild in 1707 ; visited London, where he painted many por- traits ; returned in 1726, and was director of the Antwerp Academy. Works : Moun- tainous Landscape, Antwerp Museum ; y^v * Worn an Me r- f/ I | chant, Amster- U ^Jn^Y 6 ^^ <*<* m Museum; / Poultry Yard, ^^ Germanic Mu- seum, Nuremberg. Kramm, v. 1539 ; Mi- chiels, x. 478 ; Van den Brandcn, 1207. SOCRATES, Greek painter, probably pu- pil of Pausias, from the way he is men- tioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [137]), who says his pictures were universally esteemed. Sillig, 424. SOCRATES, DEATH OF, Louis David, Mine, la Marquise de Verac ; canvas, H. 3