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.