Clara Peeters (c.1580/1590–in or after 1621) is one of the few women painters of the 17th century. (https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/clara-peeters/) Peeters’s earliest dated oil paintings, from 1607 and 1608, are small-scale, detailed images representing food and beverages. The skill with which this 14-year-old artist executed such pictures indicates that she must have been trained by a master painter. Although there is no documentary evidence of her artistic education, scholars believe that Peeters was a student of Osias Beert, a noted still life painter from Antwerp. By 1612, the 18-year-old artist was producing large numbers of painstakingly rendered still lifes, typically displaying groupings of valuable objects, such as elaborately decorated metal goblets, gold coins, and exotic flowers. Her compositions often show these arrangements on narrow ledges, seen from low vantage points, against dark backgrounds. (http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2016/11/the-art-of-clara-peeters.html) ...a still life painter 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 unclear.... 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." As a female painter, she was unusual for her time 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 other female Dutch painters also specialized in still lifes, which did not require knowledge of anatomy, an advantage for women.... More than any other artist, her works often include careful depictions of different types of cheese, still a food taken very seriously by the Dutch. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peeters) undefined

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