[4] He is not to be confused with the American museum director and art historian, James S. Snyder (born 1952).
There he studied under Kurt Weitzmann and it was Erwin Panofsky who suggested the Early Netherlandish painter Geertgen tot Sint Jans as a thesis subject.
[6] While at Bryn Mawr he was also a visiting lecturer in art history at Princeton and Johns Hopkins University.
[7] Although Bryn Mawr is a women's college, a later critic said the first edition of Snyder's Northern Renaissance Art "resorts to gender stereotypes".
[8] Awards included the A. Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association of America in 1960 for his paper on "The Early Haarlem School of Painting".