FYT, JOHANNES (16o9-1661), Belgian animal painter, was born at Antwerp and christened on Aug. 19, 1609. He was regis tered apprentice to Hans van den Berghe in 1621. At 20 Johannes Fyt entered the gild of St. Luke as a master, and from that time till his death in 1661 he produced a vast number of pictures in which the bold facility of Snyders is united to the powerful effects of Rembrandt. There never was such a master of technical processes as Fyt in the rendering of animal life in its most varied forms. He was not clever at figures, and he sometimes trusted for these to the co-operation of Cornelius Schut or Willeborts, whilst his architectural backgrounds were sometimes executed by Quel lyn. "Silenus amongst Fruit and Flowers," in the Harrach collec tion at Vienna, "Diana and her Nymphs with the Produce of the Chase," in the Belvedere at Vienna, and "Dead Game and Fruit in front of a Triumphal Arch," belonging to Baron von Rothschild at Vienna, are specimens of the co-operation respectively of Schut, Willeborts and Quellyn. They are also Fyt's masterpieces. The earliest dated work of the master is a cat grabbing at a piece of dead poultry near a hare and birds, belonging to Baron Cetto at Munich, and executed in 1644. The latest is a "Dead Snipe with Ducks," of 166o, sold with the Jager collection at Cologne in 1871. Great power is shown in the bear and boar hunts at Munich and Ravensworth castle and in the "Hunted Roedeer with Dogs in the Water," in the Berlin museum. A splendid specimen is the Page and Parrot near a table covered with game, guarded by a dog star ing at a monkey, in the Wallace collection, London.