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SNAPHAAN (Schnaphan), ABRAHAM, born in Leyden, Nov. 2, 1651, died Sept. 1, 1691. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter in the manner of the elder Frans van Mieris. His best pictures are often confounded with those of Willem van Mieris. He was court painter to the prince of Anhalt-Dessau. Work: Lady at Toilet receiving Letter, Berlin Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 544.

SNAYERS, PEETER, born in Antwerp, baptized Nov. 24, 1592, died in Brussels in 1667. Flemish school; painter of battles, camp scenes, portraits, and landscapes, pupil of Hendrik van Balen and of Sebastian Vrancx; entered the guild in 1613; court painter at Brussels in 1624 to Archduke Albert and to Cardinal Infant Ferdinand. Works: Battle of the Forty, Hampton Court; Siege of Courtrai (1650), Battles of Prague, of Wimpffen, and of Hoechst, Brussels Museum; Cavalry Charge, Combat of Horsemen, Ghent Museum; Forest Path with Wanderers, Defence of a Village, Berlin Museum; Battle Field of Pavia, Male Portrait, Cassel Gallery; Travelling Coach attacked by Horsemen (?), Darmstadt Museum; Traveller in Mountainous Country (1669), Robbers attacked by Armed Men, three others, Dresden Museum; Pantry with Game, Fruit, etc., Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Battle on White Mountain near Prague, Battle between Spaniards and Hollanders, Schleissheim Gallery; Raising of Siege of Louvain (1639), Defeat at Grancourt (1641), Battle of Thionville (1642), Battle of Lützen (1642), Siege of Einbeck (1644), Relief of St. Omer (1645), Taking of Neuburg (1645), Encounter at Presnitz (1648), Relief of Freiburg (1648), Crossing of the Somme (1662), Attack of Grancourt, Engagement near Munich in 1648, three others, Museum, Vienna; Skirmish by Forest Border (1657), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Cavalry Skirmish, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Capture of Ypres, Lille and Dunkirk, Nocturnal Attack on Lille, Siege of Gravelines, and thirteen others, Madrid Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 339; Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Kramm, v. 1534; Michiels, vii. 272; Rooses (Reber), 409; Van den Branden, 666.

SNELLINCK (Snellinx), JAN, the elder, born in Mechlin in 1549, died in Antwerp, Oct. 1, 1638. Flemish school; history painter; settled at Antwerp before 1574. Velvet Brueghel and his son, and most of the painters of the epoch, were his friends. Archduke Albert, to whom he was court painter, and the churches of Flanders employed his brush extensively. Van Dyck painted his portrait. Designed carpet patterns for factory at Oudenarde. His most interesting work is: Crucifixion (1597), Museum, Antwerp. Other works: Madonna with singing Angels and St. Cecilia, St. James's, ib.; Altarpiece with Resurrection (1601), St. Romuald's, Mechlin; Descending of the Holy Ghost (1606), St. Catharine's, ib.; Creation of Adam (1608), Church of Our Lady, Oudenarde; Transfiguration of Christ (1616), Annunciation, St. Walpurgis, ib. Five of his sons were painters.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 342; Kramm, v. 1535; Michiels, vi. 221; Rooses (Reber), 109; Siret (1883), ii. 281; Van den Branden, 431.