Jan Fyt

Jan Fyt, sometimes Johannes Fijt, are a Flemish painter born with Antwerp in 1611 and died in the same city in 1661.

Although its life is known little, it is known that in 1621, at the ten years age, he is apprentice in the restorer of images and tables Hans van den Berghe. Ten years later, it enters the guild of Luc Saint as a Master where it paints until his death a great number of fabrics.

One compares it much with Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), painter of Antwerp also, without however recognizing the same talent to him, except with regard to the subjects animalist and especially the plumages of the various dead birds or alive populating his fabrics, which formed its reputation. Its compositions are often decorated various elements of crockery (tin dish, porcelain vase…)

It mainly painted dead natures where the presence of game (often of hares) is essential.

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