Clara Peeters. Clara Peeters was a still-life painter who came from Antwerp and trained in the tradition of Flemish Baroque painting, but probably made her career mostly in the new Dutch Republic, as part of Dutch Golden Age painting.
Many aspects of her life and work remain very unclear, especially outside the period 1607 to 1621 from which period dated paintings are known. As Seymour Slive puts it Not a single uncontested document has surfaced about her life but there is reason to believe she was active in both Flanders and Holland.
She was unusual for her time in being a female painter, and is the earliest significant woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age; if regarded as a Flemish painter, she was the most famous Flemish woman of the 17th century. Most female Dutch painters also specialized in still lifes, which did not require knowledge of anatomy, among other advantages for women.
Unlike Maria van Oosterwyck and Rachel Ruysch, who specialized in flower painting, Peeters painted mostly subjects including food, and was prominent among the artists who shaped the traditions of the Dutch ontbijtjes, breakfast pieces with plain food and simple vessels, and banketje, banquet pieces with expensive cups and vessels in precious metals. More than any other artist, her works often include careful depictions of different types of cheese.
Little is known about the life of Clara Peeters. It is generall
Many aspects of her life and work remain very unclear, especially outside the period 1607 to 1621 from which period dated paintings are known. As Seymour Slive puts it Not a single uncontested document has surfaced about her life but there is reason to believe she was active in both Flanders and Holland.
She was unusual for her time in being a female painter, and is the earliest significant woman painter of the Dutch Golden Age; if regarded as a Flemish painter, she was the most famous Flemish woman of the 17th century. Most female Dutch painters also specialized in still lifes, which did not require knowledge of anatomy, among other advantages for women.
Unlike Maria van Oosterwyck and Rachel Ruysch, who specialized in flower painting, Peeters painted mostly subjects including food, and was prominent among the artists who shaped the traditions of the Dutch ontbijtjes, breakfast pieces with plain food and simple vessels, and banketje, banquet pieces with expensive cups and vessels in precious metals. More than any other artist, her works often include careful depictions of different types of cheese.
Little is known about the life of Clara Peeters. It is generall
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