Jan Kašpar Hirschely (1695 – 1743)

• Was a Czech painter of the High Baroque.
• He trained in the studio of Jan Vojtěch Angermayer in Prague.

• He became independent in 1718.

• In 1724 he was admitted to the Old Town painters' guild.

• He devoted himself mainly to oil painting of small formats on wooden boards, the genre of still lifes made of flowers, small animals, food, drinks and table utensils.

• He also painted vanity, a popular genre of still life of the transience of life with a skull, a broken candle, an hourglass or a warning inscription during the Renaissance and Baroque. 

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