A pupil of Isidore Verheyden, she was influenced by Théo van Rysselberghe whom she met in the artistic group, Les XX.

[2][1][3] She promoted many young artists, including Van Gogh, whom she admired for his talent and who was a friend of her brother Eugène Boch.

La Vigne Rouge (The Red Vineyard),[4] purchased by Anna Boch, is believed to be the only painting Van Gogh sold during his lifetime.

[citation needed] 140 of her own paintings were left to her godchild, Ida van Haelewijn, the daughter of her gardener.

[6] Exhibitions about her life and work have been held at the Royal Museum of Mariemont at Morlanwelz, between October at December 2000, at the Vincent van Gogh-huis in Hoogeveen in 2010 and at the Mu.ZEE in Ostend in 2023.