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Seventeenth-century Flemish artist Clara Peeters played a crucial role in the history of still-life painting. At a time when historical paintings were the preferred genre --- indeed, at a time when there wasn't even a term for still-life painting in Peeters's language --- Peeters painted food, flowers, fish and game. Her influence spread throughout Western Europe and she became so strongly associated with the genre that painters who took up similar subjects were sometimes described as belonging to the "circle of Peeters."