Frans Snyders: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Frans Snyders was enrolled as a student of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593, then learned from Hendrick van Balen, who was the first master of Anthony van Dyck. Snyders became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1602. Snyders traveled to Italy in 1608-9, where he first lived in Rome. Subsequently, the artist moved from Rome to Milan. Pieter Brueghel the Younger presented him there with a letter to the famous collector of paintings, Cardinal Borromeo. Brueghel asked him to paint a ...