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painted, this has been considered the finest. The artist, as her presented, betrays in his countenance and attitude a certain languor and melancholy, and no doubt the charm of his refined and sensitive face has had to do with securing this portrait its popularity. In the sincerity, the sensitiveness, with which his suave brushwork has rendered the intimate, personal character of his sitter Van Dyck has never done better, were it not for the portrayal of the less picturesque personality of Snyder's wife, a sister of another painter friend of Van Dyck, Cornelius de Vos."

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