|
Snyers [Snijers], Hendrick
(b Antwerp, c. 1612; d after 1647). Flemish engraver. In 1635–6 he was a pupil of Nicolaes Lauwers, who was then also training his own son Conrad. Lauwers would sometimes let his pupils copy existing prints (something for which he was taken to court on more than one occasion), with the result that a good part of Snyers’s early work is anonymous and therefore no longer identifiable. As a pupil of Lauwers, who was principally a reproductive engraver after Rubens, Snyers would have had contact with Rubens’s studio. In 1642, after the death of Rubens, Snyers became an assistant to Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Snyers made engravings after Rubens, van Dyck and Titian, among others. He also contributed to the Theatrum principum virorumque by Jan Meyssens (1612–70), for which he engraved the portraits of Abraham Bloemaert (Hollstein, no. 9) and Adam van Noort (Hollstein, no. 11). These small portraits are less harsh than his large reproductive engravings. Snyers also engraved a title-page after Jan Thomas (Hollstein, no. 13) for Henricus Engelgrave’s Lux evangelica (Antwerp, 1648). One of Snyers’s strongest works is undoubtedly the print after van Dyck’s Samson and Delilah (Hollstein, no. 1); this piece established him as one of the most interesting engravers of the generation immediately following Rubens.
|
|
There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art.
To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to
www.groveart.com.
To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and
subscribe to www.groveart.com
|
