Sara Saftleven (1645 – 1702), was a

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flower painter.

Biography

She was born in Utrecht as the daughter of the landscape painter

Herman Saftleven Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) ...

, who taught her to paint.Sara Saftleven
in the RKD She first married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671 who died 6 years later. In 1685 she married Captain Paul Dalbach, who died in 1691. She married for the third and last time in Blaricum in 1692 to the mayor of Naarden, Jacob Ploos, who died two years later.Sara Saftleven
on

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She had no known children and her flower still lifes are no longer known, though two drawings are in the print cabinet of the

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. She died in Naarden.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saftleven, Sara 1645 births 1702 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Artists from Utrecht (city) Dutch women painters Dutch flower artists Dutch still life painters 17th-century Dutch women artists