Margaretha Cornelia Boellaard

[2] Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans, a noted art collector, allowed her to copy works from his collection.

In 1834, she received an award from the Academie Minerva for her painting Meisje met bloemen (Girl with Flowers).

She also used her collection to present lectures and discussions at Arti et Amicitiae, the Pulchri Studio and Pictura [nl] in Dordrecht.

[1] She never married so, after her death, she willed most of her belongings to the Kunstliefde, including her home on the Oudegracht, which became a museum and exhibition hall in 1905.

The rental fees for the hall were put into a fund for the support of financially distressed artists over the age of fifty.