Sara Saftleven (1645 – 1702), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
She was born in Utrecht as the daughter of the landscape painter Herman Saftleven, who taught her to paint.
[1] She first married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671 who died 6 years later.
[1] She married for the third and last time in Blaricum in 1692 to the mayor of Naarden, Jacob Ploos, who died two years later.
[2] She had no known children and her flower still lifes are no longer known, though two drawings are in the print cabinet of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.