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Peter Snayers

1592–1667 · Habsburg Netherlands

Born
1592 · Antwerp
Died
1667 · Brussels

11 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Peter Snayers was a Flemish painter known for panoramic battle scenes, cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches, convoys, and hunting scenes. He also painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy and collaborated with local landscape painters and Rubens.

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Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers (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. He established his reputation mainly through his topographic battle scenes providing a bird's eye view over the battlefield. He further painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy. He was a regular collaborator of local landscape painters and also Rubens. After starting his career in Antwerp, he moved to Brussels where he worked for the court. He was the principal military iconographer of the court in Brussels and the appointed court painter with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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Selected registered works by Peter Snayers

Selected from 11 works by Peter Snayers in the Collect24 Registry.

Peter Snayers, Field camp

Peter Snayers

Field camp, 1620

oil paint

74 × 112 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-439547

Peter Snayers, Large cavalry battle

Peter Snayers

Large cavalry battle, 1650

oil paint

194 × 262 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-439546

Peter Snayers, Battlefield

Peter Snayers

Battlefield, 1650

oil paint

75 × 121 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-439545

Peter Snayers, Cavalry troop

Peter Snayers

Cavalry troop, 1640

oil paint

75 × 120 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-439544

Peter Snayers, Mountainous landscape with castle

Peter Snayers

Mountainous landscape with castle, 1650

oil paint

52 × 85.5 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-439543

Peter Snayers, a fight in a village ?

Peter Snayers

a fight in a village ?, 1637

oil paint

73.5 × 104.5 cm

Instituut Collectie Nederland

C24-454854

Peter Snayers, Battle on Vught Heath

Peter Snayers

Battle on Vught Heath, 1638

oil paint

49 × 85 cm

National Museum in Warsaw

C24-193238

Peter Snayers, Gefecht im Walde

Peter Snayers

Gefecht im Walde, 1653

65 × 96.8 cm

Bavarian State Painting Collections

C24-187049

Peter Snayers, Crossing the Somme in Cérisy

Peter Snayers

Crossing the Somme in Cérisy, 17th century

oil on canvas

196.8 × 271.2 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-143563

Peter Snayers, The Battle of Fleurus, 1622

Peter Snayers

The Battle of Fleurus, 1622, 1650

oil paint

118 × 195.6 cm

Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection

C24-319895

Peter Snayers, The battle at Lützen, 1632

Peter Snayers

The battle at Lützen, 1632, 1642

oil paint

202 × 282 cm

Kunsthistorisches Museum

C24-438420

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