Brief Biography-Jan Fyt, a still-life painter, was born in Antwerp in 1611. He first studied under Jan van Berch in 1621, followed by Frans Snyders in 1629. The Guild of Saint Luke admitted him in 1630. He visited Paris and Rome, where he was a member of the Bentvueghels until 1641 and became Dean of Antwerp’s Romanists in 1652. Fyt was the foremost painter of still-life game hunting dogs in his day. He collaborated with his contemporaries, such as Jacob Jordaens, who engaged him to insert staffage into his works. He died in Antwerp in 1661.