Career
Van Avont was baptized 14 January 1600 in Mechelen, Flanders and died on 1 November 1652 in Deurne, Flanders. Van Avont painted together with January Brueghel the Elder, David Vinckboons, Lucas van Uden and January Wildens among others Around 1622/3, he became master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp and became a citizen of that city in 1631.
He died in 1652.
Frans Wouters was apprenticed to Pieter van Avont in 1629 but Wouters broke his contract to move to the workshop of Rubens in 1634.