Marie Bilders-van Bosse

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.

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.

She frequently pictured the forests in the district Gelderland and the floodplains, but painted also in Drenthe, the adjacent Westerwolde (region) and in the surroundings of The Hague.

In her artistic development she approached with her paintings and watercolors the Dutch Impressionism of the Hague School, but with her own characteristic focus on trees and forests.

She maintained friendly contacts in the cultural elite (Bosboom-Toussaint, Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Augusta de Wit, Anna Wolterbeek) of The Netherlands in those days.

oil-painting: 'Avenue of Oaks in Late Summer', c. 1880-1900