Corner, John [Oth.]: Portraits of celebrated painters, with medallions from their best performances: with authentic memoirs, from established authorities (London: published by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825)

FRANCIS SNYDERS.

Snyders, and the landscape of Jordaens. The Marquis of Stafford possesses
a fine specimen of this master; and there are some of his pictures at Blen-
heim, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough.
The works of Snyders were eagerly purchased by Philip III. King of Spain
(his earliest patron), the Elector Palatine, and the Archduke Leopold Wil-
liam. The Archduke Albert, governor of the Netherlands, appointed him
his principal painter; and many of his best pieces enriched the galleries of
these illustrious persons.
His designs, which are considered valuable, are generally on blue paper,
and executed with black chalk, the heightenings with white, and the deep
shadows with Indian ink; others are freely sketched with a pen, and shaded
by irregular hatching *.

Abrefje de la Vie defameux Peintres.