Wilhelmina Holladay
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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay was an American art collector and patron. She was the co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2006.
Holladay and her husband co-founded the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Clara Peeters
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Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.
Wilhelmina Holladay
…Washington, and later married him. The Holladays began collecting art in the 1950s. On a trip to Europe during the 1970s, they saw and admired paintings by Clara Peeters at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Museo del Prado in Madrid. They were dismayed to discover that neither Peeters nor any other female…
Possible self-portrait of Peeters, in vanitas style, c. 1610
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, c. 1615, with the "signed knife", and a reflection of the painter on the rim of the jug lid. Bought by the Mauritshuis in 2012.
Still Life, 1607, signed "CLARA P 1607", also with a P-shaped pretzel
Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, 1612, with reflections of the artist on the bosses of the cup at right