Marie Bilders van Bosse

Biography

She was born in Amsterdam and when her father became minister of finance the family moved to The Hague, where she took lessons from Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Johannes Bosboom. She was already established as a painter when she married Johannes Warnardus Bilders in 1880. She was the same age as his son Gerard Bilders, who had died long before they met in 1865. She outlived her much older husband by only 10 years and died in Wiesbaden.