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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 Italy in 1608-9; painted 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 portrait. 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 (landscape by Rubens), Kitchen (figures by Rubens), Hague Museum; Still-Life (2), Amsterdam Museum; Boar attacked by Dogs, Rotterdam Museum; Dog seizing Heron, Musée Rath, Geneva; Bird Catching, Still-Life, Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Boar Hunt, Greyhounds, Brunswick Gallery; Great Kitchen-Piece, two others, Cassel Gallery; Combat of Animals, Stag Hunt, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Swans and Ducks attacked by Dogs, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Game and Fruit, Various Fruits, Copenhagen Gallery; Hunts and Still-Life (5), Stockholm Museum; fourteen pictures, Hermitage, 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 (1614), Oldenburg Gallery; Fruit Festoon around Christ and St. John (figures by Rubens), Falcon Chase, Schleissheim Gallery; Boar Hunt, Fox Hunt, Stag Hunt, Daniel in Lions' Den (after Rubens), Earthly Paradise, Deer Hunt, Vienna Museum; Hen defending herself against Falcon, Pesth Museum; Boar Hunt, Uffizi, Florence; Fruit, The Greengrocer, New York Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, iii. 97; Kramm, v. 1537; Michiels, vii. 408; Rooses (Reber), 255; Van den Branden, 672; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xi. (Mittheilungen, 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 portraits; returned in 1726, and was director of the Antwerp Academy. Works: Mountainous Landscape, Antwerp Museum; Woman Merchant, Amsterdam Museum; Poultry Yard, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg.—Kramm, v. 1539; Michiels, x. 478; Van den Branden, 1207.

SOCRATES, Greek painter, probably pupil of Pausias, from the way he is mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [137]), who says his pictures were universally esteemed.—Sillig, 424.

SOCRATES, DEATH OF, Louis David, Mme. la Marquise de Vérac; canvas, H. 3