Jan Savery

Jan Savery (1589–1654) was a Flemish painter best-known for his 1651 depiction of the dodo now held by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. It is widely believed that Lewis Carroll (who was also an Oxford mathematician) was inspired by Savery's image of the dodo hanging at Oxford to include the creature as a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Savery's uncle, Roelandt Savery, was also a painter and probably supplied the original works on which Jan Savery based his dodo painting.

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Dodo by Jan Savery (1651)

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