The artist’s earliest dated painting, a still life of confectionery, wine, and a candle, dates from two years after this marriage and bears what became her standard signature: CLARA P. On June 27, 1605, she married the painter Henrick II Peeters in Antwerp, whose status as a freeman of the Guild of Saint Luke would have absolved her from enrolling in her own name, explaining her absence from the guild’s records.
This Clara moved to Antwerp as a child, where she may have been trained by her father Nicasius Lamberts.
Most recently, Jean Bastiaensen has persuasively identified her with Clara Lamberts, who was born into an artistic family in Mechelen between 15. Early researchers confused her with other women bearing the same relatively common name, ranging from an Antwerp heiress to an Amsterdam prostitute. The Artist: Although she is a foundational figure in the history of European still life painting, almost nothing is known about Clara Peeters’s biography with certainty.
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