Catharina Peeters was the sister of Bonaventuur Peeters, Jan Peeters I

Jan Peeters I

Johannes Peeters was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in seascapes and shipwrecks, known as Zeekens .-Biography:...

, and Gillis Peeters. They were all Flemish Baroque painters noted for painting seascape

Seascape

A seascape is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art. By a backwards development, the word has also come to mean the view of the sea itself, and be applied in planning contexts to geographical locations possessing a good view of...

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Biography

Few details of her life are known. According to the RKD, she was taught to paint by her brothers. She is mentioned in Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Brabant rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier.He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies...

's book on painters in his chapter on noteworthy female painters.