Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers[1] (1592–1667) was a Flemish painter known for his panoramic battle scenes, depictions of cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches and convoys and hunting scenes.[2][3] He established his reputation mainly through his topographic battle scenes providing a bird's eye view over the battlefield.[4] He further painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy.[5] He was a regular collaborator of local landscape painters and also Rubens.[6]
After starting his career in Antwerp, he moved to Brussels where he worked for the court.[2] He was the principal military iconographer of the court in Brussels and the appointed court painter with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.[7]
- ^ Name variations: Peeter Snaijers, Peter Snaijers, Peeter Snayers
- ^ a b Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870993569. (p. 241-243, v.1; plate 92, v.2)
- ^ Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture 1585–1700, New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 173. ISBN 0-300-07038-1
- ^ "La batalla de Honnecourt" de Peeter Snayers, Boletín del Museo del Prado, no. 41, pp. 60–69.
- ^ Carl van de Velde, "Snayers, Pieter" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 9 March 2017]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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