Artist

Catharina Peeters

Southern Netherlands, 1615–1676

Catharina Peeters was a Southern Netherlands artist.

Catharina Peeters was a painter active in the Southern Netherlands between 1615 and 1676. She belonged to a prominent artistic family, serving as the sibling of the artists Gillis Peeters, Jan Peeters the Elder, and Bonaventura Peeters. Her professional training took place under the guidance of her brother Bonaventura Peeters. As one of the few documented female painters of her time in the region, she contributed to the artistic output of the Peeters workshop. Her life and work remain defined by these familial connections and her documented occupation as a painter during the seventeenth century.

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