Frans Snyders (1579 – 1657)

• Was a Flemish painter.

• The artist subsequently traveled from Rome to Milan.

• Jan Brueghel the Elder had introduced him there by letter to the famous art collector Cardinal Borromeo.
• Brueghel asked Snyders to paint a copy after a portrait by Titian in the Borromeo collection.

• This is regarded as evidence that Snyders was a skilled figure painter before he turned his attention to still life painting.

• Snyders had returned to Antwerp in the spring of 1609.

• In 1611 he married Margaretha, the sister of Cornelis de Vos and Paul de Vos, two leading painters in Antwerp.
• His collaboration with Rubens started in the 1610s.

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