He was born and worked in Antwerp, where he was taught by Frans Snijders. In 1633-4 he was in Paris, on his way to Italy. He may have visited the Netherlands; Dutch influence probably helped to moderate his early Baroque style. By 1641 he had returned to Antwerp. He was a still-life, animal and flower painter, especially famous for his depiction of trophies from the hunt.
Jan Fyt
1611 - 1661
Paintings by Jan Fyt
![Dead Birds in a Landscape](/media/33067/n-1003-00-000012-hd.jpg?rxy=0.40333333333333332,0.33409090909090911&width=576&height=576&v=1d65439cf29cae0&bgcolor=fff)
Jan Fyt was an extremely successful painter of bird and animal still-life pictures, using a light, frothy style of brushwork peculiar to him. Here, he has piled up the birds' bodies – a brace of partridges alongside a greenfinch, chaffinch, brambling, robin and quail – in a pyramid. The evening s...
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![A Still Life with Fruit, Dead Game and a Parrot](/media/34510/n-6335-00-000013-hd.jpg?cc=0.071091399016203718,0.0000000000000001263187085796,0.18411693431712942,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d6544858a69920&bgcolor=fff)
Probably by Jan Fyt
A hare’s carcass hangs from a fixing on a wall, a wound bloodying its soft, furry stomach. Its untethered leg flops lifelessly toward an overflowing basket of fruit, below which three dead birds – a brace of partridges and a jay – are displayed top-to-tail. A precious blue and white porcelain bow...
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