Jacob Gillig

Jacob Gillig (also spelled Jakob or Gellig; ca.

1636 – 24 July 1701)[1] was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish.

He apparently did not begin painting until his twenties, never registered as a master with the Utrecht Guild of Painters, and worked a merchant and then as a prison warden.

In Utrecht the city prison was next to the fish market.

These were much respected in Utrecht at the time, and several of his works were copied by Abraham Mignon.