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. Eikenlaan in de nazomer

Biography

Marie van Bosse was a daughter of

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(1809-1879) and Maria Johanna Reynvaan (1809-1864). Her father was a

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and

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for more than twenty years. Because of his work at the ministry, the family moved to

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. 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

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and frequently advised by

Johannes Bosboom Johannes Bosboom (18 February 1817 – 14 September 1891) was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors. Biography He was born in The Hague. At the age of 14 he became a student ...

. It was Bosboom who encouraged her to exhibit her works. From 1875 she received lessons from

Johannes Warnardus Bilders Johannes Warnardus Bilders (18 August 1811 – 29 October 1890) was a Dutch landscape-painter; he was the father of Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) and a forerunner of the Hague School because of his connections with H.W. Mesdag, Jozef Israëls, ...

(1811-1890). They married in 1880, with Bosboom and

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as witnesses. She was the same age as J. W. Bilders's son, the landscape-painter

Gerard Bilders Albertus Gerardus "Gerard" Bilders (9 December 1838 – 8 March 1865) was a Dutch landscape-painter, associated with some members of the Hague School, as Anton Mauve and Willem Maris. Biography Bilders was born in Utrecht, where he lived until ...

, who had died in 1865. The couple settled in the rural village

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where she painted many

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. After the death of her husband, she returned to The Hague.

Work

Marie van Bosse focused mainly on landscape painting. She usually signed 'M. Bilders van Bosse'. Besides her oil paintings, she made many

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and drawings on paper. She frequently pictured the forests in the district

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and the floodplains, but painted also in

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, the adjacent

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and in the surroundings of

. In her artistic development she approached with her paintings and watercolors the Dutch Impressionism of the

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, but with her own characteristic focus on trees and forests. Marie van Bosse became a member of the

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in 1878 and joined the

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in The Hague a year later. She has exhibited at several 'Exhibitions of Living Masters' (from 1873), the

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of 1880 and the 'National Exhibition of Women's Work' of 1898 (

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). She received a bronze medal at the World Exhibition of 1889 and an honorable mention at the World's Fair of 1900, both in Paris. She exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Van Bosse kept the prices of her paintings low, in order to be able to sell easier; this however led to protests from other Hague painter-colleagues. She maintained friendly contacts in the cultural elite ( Bosboom-Toussaint,

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, Augusta de Wit, Anna Wolterbeek) of The Netherlands in those days. Van Bosse's work has been included among others in the collections of the

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and the

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. Because of a back disorder, Van Bosse regularly settled in Germany. She died in 1900 at a spa in

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at the age of 63. She was buried with her husband in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands.

Gallery

Image:Wandelaar in de sneeuw bij de rand van een bos- Maria Bilders-van Bosse.jpg, Maria van Bosse: 'Walking in the Snow', c. 1880; watercolor Image:Korenschoven door Maria Philippina van Bosse.jpg, Maria van Bosse: 'Grain sheaves', c. 1880; work on paper Image:Landscape near the castle Doorwerth; oil-painting on canvas, by Maria Bilders-Van Bosse.jpg, 'Landscape near the castle Doorwerth', 1880s; oil-painting on canvas Image:'Beech Wood' by Marie Bilders-van Bosse.jpg, 'Beech Wood', c. 1875-1890; oil on panel Image:Landscape with sunset, by Maria Bilders van Bosse, watercolor on paper.jpg, 'Landscape with sunset', c. 1880-1900; watercolor on paper Image:Bilders van Bosse.jpg, Maria van Bosse in her studio c. 1900, with a finished 'Forest-view' on the easel Image:'Alley with trees and a small figure' by Marie van-Bosse watercolour 60 x 85 cm.jpg, 'Alley with trees and a small figure', watercolor on paper; c, 1880–95 Image:Maria Bilders-van Bosse - Eikenlaan in de nazomer 1900 - SK-A-1922.JPG, 'Oak alley' in Fall, c. 1880-1895; oil on canvas Image:Het balkengat’ oil-painting by Marie Bilders - Van Bosse, c. 1890s.jpg, 'Het Balkengat', c. 1890s; oil-painting on canvas

References

External links

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Marie Bilders-van Bosse
images of her works on Artnet
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in the

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...

, Amsterdam
biography notes of Marie Bilders-van Bosse in English, from the Dutch R.K.D. Archive
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