Maria Philippina Bilders-van Bosse Art for Sale at Auction

Painter

Maria Philippina (Marie) Bilders-van Bosse (Amsterdam, 21 February 1837 – Wiesbaden, 11 July 1900) was a painter, famous for her landscape-paintings in an early Dutch-impressionist style.

Marie van Bosse was a daughter of Pieter Philip van Bosse (1809-1879) and Maria Johanna Reynvaan (1809-1864). Her father was a lawyer and Minister of Finance in The Netherlands for more than twenty years. Because of his work at the ministry, the family moved to The Hague. Marie van Bosse was a niece of the artist Sara Stracké-van Bosse.

At age eighteen Marie van Bosse decided that she wanted to become a painter – a rather unusual decision for a woman of that time.

She was taught in painting by the Dutch artist Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen and frequently advised by Johannes Bosboom. It was Bosboom who encouraged her to exhibit her works. From 1875 she received lessons from Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811-1890). They married in 1880, with Bosboom and Hendrik Willem Mesdag as witnesses. She was the same age as J. W. Bilders's son, the landscape-painter Gerard Bilders, who had died in 1865. The couple settled in the rural village Oosterbeek where she painted many landscapes. After the death of her husband, she returned to The Hague.